- (Old Testament) (c. 1400?-300? BC)
- Homer (fl.c. 850? BC)
- Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BC)
- Sophocles (c. 495-406 BC)
- Euripides (c. 485-406 BC)
- Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC)
- Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC)
- Hippocrates (c. 460-377? BC)
- Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC)
- Plato (c. 427-347 BC)
- Aristotle (c. 384-322 BC)
- Virgil (70-19 BC)
- Plutarch (c. 45-120)
- (New Testament) (c. 45?-95?)
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
- St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- William Harvey (1578-1657)
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
- René Descartes (1596-1650)
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- Molière (1622-1673)
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
- John Locke (1632-1704)
- Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
- Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
