Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Greek philosopher Anacharsis.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Anacharsis was a Scythian philosopher; he travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea, to Ancient 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.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Every man is his own chief enemy.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.