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Socrates - wives and happiness...

April 28th 2006 02:23
Socrates, a man with a bad wife...
“By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.” – Socrates (B.C.)

HA! Good one Socrates. Socrates was a Greek philosopher who lived in 470-399BC. In this quote, Socrates is essentially bagging his wife out as he says ‘if you get a bad [wife] you will become a philosopher’ – which he is. So she mustn’t have been a good wife then! I wonder if his wife knew of this quote at the time...


Socrates is best known outside philosophy for his death by drinking hemlock (a poisonous plant in the parsley family) after being found guilty of having interfered with the religion of Athens and of having corrupted its youth through his teachings. So it looks like it was Socrates that was bad, not his wife!
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Comment by Cibbuano

April 28th 2006 05:20


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too bad hemlock is poisonous... otherwise, it sounds like a tasty drink!

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