Thomas Hunt

“Furthermore the true Cynic must know that he is sent as a Messenger from God to men, to show unto them that as touching good and evil they are in error; looking for these where they are not to be found, nor ever bethinking themselves where they are.”
― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, "I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men," Epictetus replied, "I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!”
― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“If you want to get to the truth about what makes us different, it’s this,” Bezos says, veering into a familiar Jeffism: “We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented and we genuinely like to invent.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“has any of you such power as Socrates had, in all his intercourse with men, of winning them over to his own convictions?”
― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus