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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....If what philosophers say of the kinship of God and Man 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 (55 C.E. – 135 C.E.), Greek Stoic philosopher, born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey). The Golden Sayings, XV.

So very apt for MR members!