"My country is a disgrace to me, but you are a disgrace to your country."
— Anacharsis

January 1, 1970

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On being insulted by an Athenian for being a Scythian, 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