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See Jonathan Swift {35359} and William Shenstone {642165} for a later expression of this notion.
Even today, the ethics of the business world are much looser than ethics of most other areas. He was considered one of the 7 Great Greek Sages, although he was not Greek by birth.
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Anacharsis (/ˌænəˈkɑːrsɪs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀνάχαρσις) was a Scythian philosopher; he travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea, to Athens, in the early 6th century BC, and made a great impression as a forthright and outspoken barbarian, that is, a non-Greek speaker. He very well could have been a forerunner of the Cynics, in part because of his strong, but playful, parrhesia. None of his works have survived.
