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Anacharsis

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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 Laėrtius, as translated by C. D. Yonge) (1853), "Anacharsis" sect. 5, p. 48

 
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