Aristotle

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"...suppose α without weight, but β possessing weight; and let α pass over space γδ, but β in the same time pass over a space γε,—for that which has weight will be carried through the larger space. If …"

"t is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time."

"But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances."

"If ... we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and nob…"

"时间碾碎万物；一切都因时间的力量而衰老，在时间的流逝中被遗忘。Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."

"hey pronounce absurdly who thus speak, as the Pythagoreans assert: for at the same time they make the infinite to be essence, and distribute it into parts."

"This was for years the standard translation of Aristotle. It was reprinted in Great Books of the Western World ."