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As a rational, social being, a person's city is the whole world
Drawn from what Marcus Aurelius said
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- Marcus Aurelius Roman emperor and Stoic-influenced philosopher (121 to 180)
But my nature is rational and social; and my city and country, so far as I am Antoninus, is Rome, but so far as I am a man, it is the world.
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↗Meditations (tr. George Long, 1862)gutenberg.org
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