When Socrates was asked by a young man whether he should take a wife or avoid marriage altogether, Socrates replied that whichever the...

I had to return to my family at Chátenay to answer for my desperate action to my grandfather the Maréchal de Ségur. Arriving in the early...

Themistocles:

Solon went, they say, to Thales, at Miletus, and wondered that Thales took no care to get him a wife and children. To this, Thales made no answer for the present; but a few days after procured a stranger to pretend that he left Athens ten days ago; and Solon inquiring what news there, the man, according to his instructions, replied, “None but a young man’s funeral, which the whole city attended; for he was the son, they said, of an honourable man, the most virtuous of the cit