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Quotation from The Discourses by Epictetus
“Never in reply to the question, to what country you belong, say that you are an Athenian or a Corinthian, but that you are a citizen of the world”
The Discourses, Book I, Ch. 9, trans. George Long (1877)
Kinship with God is made the ground of a cosmopolitan identity, following Socrates.
Citation: "Never in reply to the question, to what country you belong, say that you are an Athenian or a Corinthian, but that you are a citizen of the world" — Epictetus, The Discourses, Book I, Ch. 9, trans. George Long (1877). (id epictetus-discourses-q3)
