"If you could kick in butt the person responsible for all your troubles, you couldn't sit down for a week." - Somebody here at MDL had that as a sig.
"I hated every minute of training but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as champion." Muhammad Ali. & "You do not have to be great to start but you have to start to become great."
“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
sint sane superbi: quid id ad nos attinet? idne irascimini, si quis est superbior quam nos? So let them be arrogant: what does it matter to us? Or is it infuriating if someone is more arrogant than we? the roman senator marcus porcius cato maior, in pro rhodiensibus
This thread just became very interesting. By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates
He should know - Xanthippe was a proverbial witch... allegedly... so, no wonder he ended up so influential, heheheheee....
And he didn't run away, as Plato & co. (his students) planned and bribed the guards and so on. The man of principle and conviction... the ultimate escape from his wife...
baffled me as i read plato, half a century ago, but maybe, just maybe he was right after all.. hindsight...