—  Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher

—  Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor

—  Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954

—  Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President

—  John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist

     (Letter to John F. Kennedy ,2 March 1962)

—  Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer

—  Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President

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

—  Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist

—  E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer

—  Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer

—  Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer

—  Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President

—  William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher

—  Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, French fashion designer

—  Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor

—  Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer

—  Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President

—  H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer

—  Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher

—  Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist

—  Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician

—  Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer

—  Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD

—  Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer

—  Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher

—  Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims

—  Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker

—  William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher

—  Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress

—  Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress

—  Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer

—  Alan Greenspan, 1926-, American economist

—  Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims

—  Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher

—  Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer

—  Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims

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

—  Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer

—  Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher

—  Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher

—  Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher

—  D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer

—  Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer

—  Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976

—  Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist

—  Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer

—  Epistles of Paul ‐ 1 Thessalonians 5:21

—  T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948

—  P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

Βιοί γαρ ουδείς ον προαιρείται βίον.

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

Κακώς ζην κρείσσον ή καλώς θανείν.

—  Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Iphigeneia at Aulis

Ζημίαν αιρού μάλλον ή κέρδος αισχόν. Το μεν γαρ άπαξ λυπήσει, το δε αεί.

—  Chilon of Sparta, 6th cent. BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece

Πόλεμος ένδοξος, ειρήνης αισχράς αιρετώτερος.

—  Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator

Φαγέτω με λέων και μη αλώπηξ.

—  Aesop, 620-560 BC, Ancient Greek fabulist

—  French proverb

—  Croatian proverb

—  from the film Klondike Annie (1936)