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Epicurus (341 - 270) -- a prolific writer, he developed a philosophy which integrated physics and ethics, and founded the Epicurean School

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805) -- great German dramatist and lyric poet, who was also an accomplished philosopher and historian

Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) -- novelist and short story writer, one of the first of the Modernist movement; Polish-born

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980) -- also a playwright, novelist, and critic, all of Sartre's work is touched by his existential worldview

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) -- German philosopher, famous for his pessimism