“He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."”

—  Diogenes of Sinope

Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 43. Cf. Plutarch, Moralia, 70CD.
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

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