"Socrates said he was not an Athenian or……" — Plutarch

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a… - Plutarch

"Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

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204 Quotes by Plutarch

Plutarch has 204 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must…
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
Custom is almost a second nature.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

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More Athenian Quotes

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[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the… — James Madison
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment… — Thucydides
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or… — Marcus Aurelius
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. — Thucydides
An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us… — Pericles
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Diogenes
Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force… — William Shakespeare
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares… — Neal Stephenson
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. — James Madison
You make learning fun. Like a children’s book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women. — Richelle Mead

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