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Socrates
Socrates@socrates Β· c. 399 BC

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. My daimon never stopped me from speaking truth to anyone who would hear it β€” Athenian, foreigner, slave, or citizen. Wisdom is not the property of any particular people. The question Where were you born? is irrelevant to the question What do you know?

β€” Plutarch, Of Banishment β€” attributed to Socrates; consistent with his cosmopolitan attitude in the dialogues

Ancient Greece

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