“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Compare doctrine of fidelity to Athenian law in Plato's Crito.
Plutarch
“Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
— Plutarch
Of Banishment
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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