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>>7205077
This guy tbh. Some philosophers before him called themselves cosmopolitan, but he's the one who really put that idea it into practice. Western civilization has been expanding and absorbing ever since. Segregation and preservation are just temporary periods of misguided reactionism.

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>You will never study under Aristotle
>Diogenes will never tell you to get out of his sun.
>You will never conquer Babylon
>You will never take a qt Persian princess as your second wife.
>You will never die in the prime of your life, untainted by failure.
>You will never give birth to western civilization by allowing Greek and Persian cultures to intermingle.
>You will never have 20 cities named after you.
>You will never have the greatest library named after you.

Why even live?

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