—  Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

—  Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer

—  Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher

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

—  George Washington, 1732-1799, the first American President

—  Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet

—  George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer

—  Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist

—  Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer

—  Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher

—  Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor

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

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

—  Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer

—  Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher

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

—  Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909]

—  Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer

—  Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis

—  William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Richard III

—  Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950, Italian writer

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer

—  William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic

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

—  Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer

—  Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer

—  Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer

—  James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer

—  Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

Πόλλ’ εφέλκεται φυγή κακά ξυν αυτή.

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

Ανήρ ο φεύγων και πάλι μαχήσεται.

—  Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy)

—  International proverb

—  from the film Forrest Gump (1994)