“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)
Variant: Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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