If what philosophers say of the kinship of God and Men be true, what remains for men to do but as Socrates did: never, when asked one's country, to answer, 'I am an Athenian or a Corinthian,' but 'I am a citizen of the world. (Epictetus)

If what philosophers say of the kinship of God and Men be true, what remains for men to do but as Socrates did: never, when asked one's country, to answer, 'I am an Athenian or a Corinthian,' but 'I am a citizen of the world.

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