Sin

—  La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer

—  Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence

—  Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer

—  Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer

—  Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet

—  Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer

—  Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher

—  Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet

—  Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright

—  Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer

—  André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947

—  Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher

—  William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Measure for Measure

—  Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher

—  Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer

—  Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer

—  Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer

—  Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910, Russian writer

—  Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734,  English physician and adage collector

—  Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher

—  John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet

—  Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969

—  Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936

—  Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer

—  Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher

—  Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer

—  Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer

—  Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950, Italian writer

—  Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer

—  Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims

—  John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962

—  Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer

—  Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer

—  Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet

—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

—  Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921

—  Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921

—  William Faulkner, 1897-1962, American writer, Nobel 1949

—  Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher

—  W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, British poet

—  Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer

—  Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer

—  Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher

—  Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer

—  Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright

—  Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher

—  Alfred Capus, 1858-1922, French writer

—  Pythagoras, 580-490 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

—  Titus Livius, 59 BC-17 AD, Roman historian

—  Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893, French writer

Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.

—  Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet

Qui dormit, non peccat.

—  Latin proverb

Alitur vitium, vivitque tegendo.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

Si vitam puriter egi.

—  Catullus, 84-54 BC, Roman poet

—  Odysseas Elytis, 1911-1996, Greek poet, Nobel 1979

—  Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright

—  Jay Leno, 1950-, American TV host

Ά ποιείν αισχρόν, ταύτα νόμιζε μηδέ λέγειν είναι καλόν.

—  Isocrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician

Πολλοίς αρέσκει τα του βίου χείρονα.

—  Ancient Greek proverb

Φαύλων έργων και τους λόγους παραιτητέον.

—  Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Ελεύθερον αδύνατον είναι τον πάθεσι δουλεύοντα και υπό παθών κρατούμενον.

—  Pythagoras, 580-490 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher