"Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet." - St. Augustine
- Petronius Arbiter, Rome, 61, The Satyricon
- Seneca, Rome , 49, On the Shortness of Life
- Luke, Israel, 60-80, The Gospel
- Luke, Israel, 60-80, Acts
- John, Israel, 60-80, The Gospel
- Paul, Israel, 60-80, Epistles
- Paul, Israel, 60-80, Romans
- Plutarch, Greece, 100, Lives
- Suetonius, Rome, 119, The Twelve sars
- Marcus Aurelius, Rome, 180, Meditations
- Apuleius, Numidia, 160, The Golden Ass
- Augustine of Hippo, Rome, 410, The City of God
- Kalidasa, India, 410, The Cloud Messenger
- Unknown, Japan, 630, The Kojiki
- Muhammad of Medina, Arabia, 632, The Koran
- Hui-Neng, China, 700, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
- Sei Shonagon, Japan, 990, The Pillow Book
- Murasaki Shikubu, Japan, 990, The Tale of Genji
- Unknown, Baghdad, 950, The Thousand and One Nights
- Ben Hasan Firdawsi, Persia, 1000, Shah Nameh
- Omar Khayyam, Persia, 1100, The Rubaiyat
- Unknown, England, 1000, Beowulf
- Unknown, Wales, 1150, The Mabinogion
- Snori Sturluson, Iceland, 1220, The Prose Edda
- Unknown, Austria, 1210, Niebelungenlied
- Thomas Aquinas, Italy, 1273, Summa Theologica
- Dante Alighieri, Italy, 1321, The Divine Comedy
- Giovanni Bocaccio, Italy, 1352, The Decameron
- Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, 1375, Muqaddimah
- Luo Kuan-chung, China, 1380, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Shin Nai-an, China, 1390, The Water Margin
- Geoffrey Chaucer, England, 1395, The Canterbury Tales
- Unknown, England, 1400, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Thomas Malory, England, 1485, Le Morte D’Arthur
