—  Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998, American singer

     (his last words)

—  Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher

—  Augustus, 63 BC-14 AD, Roman Emperor

     (Publius Quinctilius Varus was the commander of the 3 legions lost at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest)

—  Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher

—  Pierre Claude Boiste, 1765-1824, French lexicographer

—  Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher

—  Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher

—  H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic

—  Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet

—  Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet

—  Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor

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

—  Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer

—  Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims

—  Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer

—  Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer

—  Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher

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

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

—  Edmond Rostand, 1868-1918, French playwright

     (“Cyrano de Bergerac”)

—  Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher

—  James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer

—  Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher

—  Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter

Male parta male dilabuntur.

—  Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman

—  Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer

—  Robert Browning, 1812-1889, British poet

—  Louise Glück, 1943-, American poet, Nobel 2020

—  Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian

Τα μεν γαρ άλλα δεύτερα αν πάσχη γυνή, ανδρός δ’ αμαρτάνουσα, αμαρτάνει βίου.

—  Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Andromache

Η του πλέονος επιθυμίη το παρεόν απόλλυσι.

—  Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

—  American proverb

—  from the film Fight Club (1999)