I started taking some college classes and I have to write some essays and I have to (obviously) cite any sources I use. I found a quote from Aristotle but I can find no actual source for it other than Wikiquote and I am unsure how to properly cite such a thing.
How important is it that Arisotle actually said what was in the quote. The purpose of citation is two fold. Giving proper credit (avoiding plagiarism) and providing the authority to enhance your content.
I would just cite to wikiquote as saying Aristotle says. I would not bother authenticating that Aristotle actually said the statement. The dude was dead wrong about lots of stuff. It's okay to be tentative about the attribution.
Hope this helps.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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