Eu gosto das citações no Livro de Regras, e tenho algumas delas (como a do Seneca e a do Conde de Monte Cristo ). Outros, no entanto, são mais difíceis de rastrear ou são imprecisamente atribuídos (como o Anacharsis). Minha favorita das citações é a que é atribuída a José Gnecco Laborde, que, segundo alguns pesquisadores do Google, era um escritor espanhol. Acho que parte dos meus problemas em autenticar as citações é que eles foram traduzidos de suas línguas originais para o espanhol então para o inglês.

• Os desenvolvedores tentaram usar somente material do mundo real para essas cotações?
• Por que essas citações e fontes foram escolhidas?
• Por que essas citações foram incluídas?

As citações do livro são apresentadas abaixo, mas eu entendo que é um pouco demais perguntar a partir de um site de perguntas e respostas sobre todas elas. Uma confirmação caso a caso ou a negação da autenticidade de cada cotação pode contar como uma resposta, mas estou mais interessado nas respostas às perguntas acima.

Citações

To be born is to begin to die
—Theophile Guatier

Soul for the human
Anima for the beast
Yet always we say
Blessed be the animas of purgatory
—Jose Gneco [sic] Laborde

Everybody thinks that having talent is a matter of luck
Nobody thinks that luck could be a matter of talent
—Jacinto Benavente

The only man who never makes a mistake
Is the man who never does anything
—Teddy Roosevelt

Among so many changes in human affairs
Only death is certain
Nonetheless all lament
This thing that fools no one
—Seneca

All men are made of the same clay
But not from the same mold
—Trinidad

It is always good to know about everything
—Lao Tse

If the Porcupine were a little smarter, it wouldn't need all those needles
—A. Graf

Never count how many times you have fallen
but the strength with which you arise
—Anacharsis

It is astonishing how much strength the soul can infuse into the body
—W. von Humboldtu

Once I dreamt my soul abandoned my body
I could fly and look inside the hearts of men
The only thing I could not do was wake up
—Montaigne

A man's power doesn't consist of what he can do himself, but what he can will others to do
—Joshua

It's all in the mind
—H. Durán

You never know what lies ahead before you when you wake up in the morning
—Clariton Howard

Ignorance leads us into error, and error leads us into learning
—Agustus

He who directs is a man in need of others
—Paul Valery

A land without ruins is a place without memories
A place without memories is a land without history
—Abraham J. Ryan

The darkness envelops all of us
But while the wise man stammers against a wall
The ignorant man remains in the center of the chamber
—A. France

One by one all of us are mortals
Together we are eternal
—Quevedo

All the harmony in the world is made up of discordance
—Seneca

The truth... that fragment of death...
Sometimes I would prefer to live in the shadows
—Fedor Kavsow

Hell starts with others
—Goethe

Men fear the very same Gods they have invented
—Lucano [sic? maybe Luciano De Crescenzo?]

Divinity runs through our veins
Because, in the end, we are like Gods
—Emerson

All of us have our reason to exist
All of us have are needed in the world...
—Angel Osorio

The sleep of reason produces monsters
—Goya

There is no need to know danger in order to fear it
Indeed, it may be observed that it is usually unknown perils that inspire the greatest terror
—Alexandre Dumas

I don't care up to where our vision reaches
In our future I can see many horizons...
—Barnabas