Apophthegmata Laconica

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

In answer to a man from abroad who said that among his own citizens he was called a lover of Sparta, he said, It would be better to be called a lover of your own country than a lover of Sparta.