“Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?”

— Socrates

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Plato, Crito

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classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470–-399 BC

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