—  Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Soviet leader

—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

—  William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Julius Caesar

—  Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953

     (about the pilots in the Battle of Britain, 1940)

—  Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor

—  George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925

—  Franklin P. Jones, 1908-1980, American columnist

—  James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer

—  Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer

—  Kostas Varnalis, 1883-1974, Greek poet

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

—  Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general

—  William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Henry V

—  Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual

—  Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier

—  Ernest Renan, 1823-1892, French philosopher & historian

—  Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator

—  Claude Lelouch, 1937-, French film director

—  George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer

—  Victor Frankl, 1905-1997, Austrian neurologist

—  Edmond Rostand, 1868-1918, French playwright

—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

—  Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer

—  Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer

—  Ernest Renan, 1823-1892, French philosopher & historian

—  Hannibal, 247-183 BC, Carthaginian military commander

—  Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian poet, Nobel 1913

—  Martin Luther, 1483-1546, German theologian, protagonist of Reformation

—  Luigi Pirandello, 1867-1936, Italian writer (Nobel 1934)

Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

—  Constantine Kavafy, 1868-1933, Greek poet ‐ Thermopylae

—  Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet

—  Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet

—  Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American writer

—  George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian

Μολών λαβέ.

—  Leonidas, King of Sparta

     (at Thermopylae, 480 BC)

Ευκλεώς τοι κατθανείν χάρις βροτώ.

—  Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Agamemnon

Ανδρών επιφανών πάσα η γη τάφος.

—  Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian

     (in Pericles' Funeral Oration)

Ώλετο μεν μοι νόστος, ατάρ κλέος άφθιτον έστα.

—  Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad IX

Πλειν ανάγκη, ζην ουκ ανάγκη.

—  Plutarch, 47-120 AD, Ancient Greek historian ‐ Πομπήιος

     (general Pompey to sailors who did not want to sail because of a storm)

Τους πόνους γαρ αγαθοί τολμώσι, δειλοί δ’ εισίν ουδέν ουδαμού.

—  Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Iphigeneia in Tauris

Ουκ αν είη ατείχιστος πόλις άτις άνδρεσσι, και ου πλίνθοις εστεφάνωται.

—  Lycurgus, c. 800 BC, King of Sparta & lawmaker

—  from the film The Lion King