An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

His home city had exiled him over a scandal with its coins. When someone threw that at him, he said, “You wretched man, that is what made me a philosopher.” Asked where he came from, he answered, “A Citizen of the world.”

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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