قال سقراط إنه ليس أثينيًّا ولا يونانيًّا، بل مواطنٌ في العالم.

“Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”Plutarch — Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto (1888)