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Origine: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Origine: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 3: Seraphita - Seraphitus.

Variante: What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Origine: The Analects, Other chapters, Chapter XVː23

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

On lies and truth - "TB Joshua Rejects Courts Findings, Insists Building Collapse Was A Sabotage" http://citifmonline.com/2015/07/10/tb-joshua-rejects-courts-findings-insists-building-collapse-a-sabotage/ Citi FM, Ghana (July 10 2015)

Gyokuon-hōsō (1945)

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

"Letter to a Cuban Farmer" (1893)

This quotation has been misattributed to Laozi; its origin is actually unknown (see "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" on Wiktionary). This quotation has also been misattributed to Confucius and Guan Zhong.
Misattributed

Attributed

Cited in: Michael J. Gelb (1996) Thinking for a change: discovering the power to create, communicate and lead. p. 96

Untersuchen was ist, und nicht was behagt
Der Versuch als Vermittler von Objekt und Subjekt (The Attempt as Mediator of Object and Subject) (1792)

Origine: Fiction, Zendegi (2010), Ch. 1

Walden Two (1948), p. 95.

From interview with Subhash K. Jha

Songs of the Soul (1971)

Changing My Mind, Among Others (1982)

The Sayings of the Wise (1555)

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Act 4, sc. 5
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

Various forms of this quote are attributed to Poe, primarily by a title card in the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, though there is no record of his having ever said it.
Misattributed

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

"Spring Night"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)

Attributed to Laozi in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed

Choruses from The Rock (1934)

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Nelson Madenla on leadership, Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary celebrations, Kwadukuza, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (25 April 1998). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes
1990s

"Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" (1946)

This Is My Story (1937)

The Fourfold Treasure (1871) No. 991 http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0991.htm

Spoken statement (c. 1903); published in Harper's Monthly (September 1932).
Variants:
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Statement in a press conference (1929), as quoted in Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James D. Newton, p. 24.
Variant forms without early citation: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
"Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
1900s
Variante: Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety nine perspiration.

Origine: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism

From his various literature
Origine: These words are uttered by the lead character of his work with the same name - Sakharam Gatne.

J. M. Barrie The Admirable Crichton, Act I (1903)
The Admirable Crichton (1903)

Quoted in: Charlotte Gray. Mother Teresa: Her Mission to Serve God by Caring for the Poor. G. Stevens, (1988), p. 53
1980s

On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.
Origine: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925), Ch. I: "Grief and Oblivion"

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 494
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

Cited in Whitney Museum of American Art (1975 Brochure), "Minnie Evans" Call number ND237.E78 W43 1975

Origine: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 23.

As Military Adviser in China - Page 245 by Aleksandr Ivanovich Cherepanov - China - 1982.

Quote from 'Life and Work', in Hugo Ball on Wikipedia
his remark after witnessing the invasion of Belgium by the German armies, in the start of World War 1. in 1914
before 1916

Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971).

Mieux vaut mettre les choses au pis tout de suite, répondit l’ingénieur, et ne se réserver que la surprise du mieux.
Part I, ch. IX
The Mysterious Island (1874)
Contesto: Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise.

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

La clémence vaut mieux que la justice.
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.

Harvard address (2008)

V. 219–220 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

"As I Please," Tribune (10 March 1944)^{http://alexpeak.com/twr/orwell/quotes/}
As I Please (1943–1947)

Omnipotent Government : The Rise of the Total State and Total War (1944) http://mises.org/etexts/mises/og.asp
Contesto: The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn.... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression.... All nations can coexist peacefully...

Reflections of a Non-Political Man [Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen] (1918)
Contesto: The important thing for me, then, is not the "work," but my life. Life is not the means for the achievement of an esthetic ideal of perfection; on the contrary, the work is an ethical symbol of life.

Origine: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4
Contesto: Writing well was almost the same as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well. All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature, from the soul of human dignity, which was the moving spirit of both humanity and politics. Yes, they were all one, one and the same force, one and the same idea, and all of them could be comprehended in one single word... The word was — civilization!

Audentes fortuna iuvat.
Variant translations:
Fortune favors the brave.
Fortune helps the daring.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Compare:
Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
Fortune is given to brave men.
Ennius, Annales, 257
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book X, Line 284

Letter from Batoche, N.W. T. to The Irish World (6 May 1885), also published as " An Appeal for Justice" in The Gibbet of Regina : The Truth about Riel, Sir John A. Macdonald and His Cabinet Before Public Opinion, by One who Knows (1886) by One who knows, Napoléon Thompson, p. 186
Contesto: In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die. A day of reckoning will come to our enemies and of jubilee to my people. The hated yoke of English domination and arrogance will be broken in this land, and the long-suffering victims of their injustice will, with God's blessing, re-enter into the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions.

Quoted in Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine (2013) by Phillipe Mather, p. 46
Contesto: I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

The Clowns of God (1981)
Contesto: Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things. You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

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Origine: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 228
Contesto: Every society is a moral society. In certain respects, this character is even more pronounced in organised societies. Because the individual is not sufficient unto himself, it is from society that he receives everything necessary to him, as it is for society that he works.

Electra, 1007.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Origine: The Beloved Returns (1939), Ch. 7
Contesto: Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

The Essence of Alan Watts (1977)

The Counsels of the Holy Father St. Francis, Admonition 27.
Contesto: Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

The Discovery of India (1946), pp. 287-8.

1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
Contesto: It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved. But I know that that is not the case. The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

The second sentence is often misquoted as “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.” or “Religion gives us certainty without proof; science gives us proof without certainty.”
Contesto: Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.

Part I.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Contesto: Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Contesto: There are only two forces that unite men — fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

As quoted in Simón Bolívar (1969) by Gerhard Masur
Contesto: Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves. Fight, and you shall win. For God grants victory to perseverance.

The Plague (1947)
Contesto: The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Letter to Thomas Cushing (1773) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/franklin-the-works-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-vi-letters-and-misc-writings-1772-1775#lf1438-06_head_007.
Contesto: But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.

A Great Experiment (1941), p. 189
Contesto: The truth is, I was never a very good Party man. Probably but for the War of 1914, I should have gone on fairly comfortably as a Conservative official. But those four years burnt into me the insufferable conditions of international relations which made war the acknowledged method — indeed, the only fully authorized method — of settling international disputes. Thenceforth, the effort to abolish war seemed to me, and still seems to me, the only political object worth while.

Bryn Mawr Commencement Address https://books.google.com/books?id=QK6TYg32CocC&pg=PA160 (1986), in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1997), p. 160

Classified Appendix (p. 354)
The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012)

Origine: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 3

Origine: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 107

Origine: The self-criticism of science

Origine: "Intuitions" (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)

Not by van Gogh, but from Emile Zola's novel The Ladies' Paradise (1883)
Misattributed

"Ironic"
Jagged Little Pill (1995)

Origine: Crime and Punishment (Zločin a trest)

It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.
Introduction to "We Will All Go Together When We Go"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)