"The forum [is] an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave covetously."
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As quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, as translated by C. D. Yonge (1853), "Anacharsis" sect. 5, p. 48
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Anacharsis
Anacharsis was a Scythian traveller and philosopher of the sixth century BC who visited Athens. His observations on Ancient Greek culture survive only through the testimony of writers who lived many centuries after his time.
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