Each one of us is, as it were, encompassed by many circles.

ἕκαστος ἡμῶν οἷον πολλοῖς κύκλοις περιγέγραπται.

Hierocles

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Hierocles

Roman Stoic of the second century AD, known almost entirely through one papyrus recovered at Hermopolis in 1901. His concentric-circles model of cosmopolitanism remains a key tool in modern moral philosophy.

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