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The Renaissance2 quotes
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition-and perchance to some excess-I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. — Francis Bacon · 1625Classical antiquity1 quote
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. — Martial · 103