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I am a citizen of the world

Reported by Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes of Sinope Ancient Cynic philosopher
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Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 6.63; R. D. Hicks translation (1925), reproduced at Wikisource.
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Diogenes of Sinope

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