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[Malapapa]

Rubbish! Socrates was Greek and he said: I am not Athenian, I am not Greek. I am a citizen of the world. You are an insult to Socrates!

Socrates said various b..hts, but if you are not feeling and beleaving that you are Greek -you can -not comment on him -you can not understand his bdhts-you can not be a descendant of him.
Unfo for you ,i am all of these things and you are just an " DOKISISOFOS"

I bet Socrates spoke better English than you do though.

[Oracle]

Rubbish! Socrates was Greek and he said: I am not Athenian, I am not Greek. I am a citizen of the world. You are an insult to Socrates!

Rubbish!

That was Plutarch, perhaps paraphrasing!

However, it contradicted Socrates' views on obeying Athenian laws, in Defence (by Plato).

So who knows?

[BirKibrisli]

Birkibrisli gardash, don't bother with these people. They are not worth it. Remember also what I said before. They are not really Greek. They are barbarians that learned Greek.

The world seems to be full of Barbarians,dear Bananiot...How are we, the civilised citizens of the world,manage to stay sane???

[Bananiot]

Once again I am astoundingly impressed, oracle, this time round of your profound knowledge of the classics. What a brain!

Birkibrisli, do not take them seriously. These are marginal people who write their profound nonsense in a forum hiding behind anonymity. Face to face they would appear more like midgets of thought.

[Sotos]

Oracle is smarted and more educated than both of you put together... and it shows

[Bananiot]

She knows the classics inside out! At the press of a button ...

[BirKibrisli]

Oracle is smarted and more educated than both of you put together... and it shows

Only in your stinking,racist,prejudiced,bloody Greek fanatical mind...

[denizaksulu]

Oracle is smarted and more educated than both of you put together... and it shows

Only in your stinking,racist,prejudiced,bloody Greek fanatical mind...

You must admit Bir, her spark is brighter than most - you excluded ofcourse.

[denizaksulu]

Oracle is smarted and more educated than both of you put together... and it shows

Only in your stinking,racist,prejudiced,bloody Greek fanatical mind...

You must admit Bir, her spark is brighter than most - you excluded ofcourse.

[Oracle]

She knows the classics inside out! At the press of a button ...

Oh yes, the Internet is a great leveller. So how come you still get that quote wrong?

I took you to task about its misuse before. More especially because the Athenians considered the world as potentially all under their sphere of influence.

And since you are so fond of Socrates, confident that you resemble him in progressive thinking; he on the other hand admired the Spartans, not least because of their xenelasia (avoidance of strangers).

So, Ban, you can find quotes for any occasion at the touch of a button, but it takes a little more to use them faithfully, in the right context!