I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.

Socrates
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More Quotes By Socrates
  1. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

  2. Know thyself.

  3. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

  4. The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

  5. The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

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