“The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.”

— Diogenes Laërtius

Anacharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

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biographer of ancient Greek philosophers 180–240

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