Aesop

Pre-Socratics

Plato, Aristotle and the golden mean

Ayn Rand

I'll add that I disagree with Plato and Aristotle on a host of matters. Loved the Kung Fu series with David Garradine when I was growing up. In my early teens I was into Schopenhauer + Carl Jung. Later read some Zen Buddhism stories + Osho/Rajneesh also.