Socrates

             le of. Toward the end of his military service while at a camp in-between battles, he awoke early one morning and stood on top of a nearby hill, in the mud, motionless for the entire day. Nobody attempted to disturb his trance-like state. At the next morning's sunrise, he turned around, walked down the hill, and continued his normal duties with no mention of what had happened. .
             Shortly after the day entranced, upon his return to Athens, and end of military service, he gave up stonecutting and invested the money he had earned with his inheritance from his father, only to never work again. His days were now spent in the city conversing with anyone who would listen about various reflective concepts (Hulse 73, 105). While he still provided for his family, his new fascination with seeking truths disconnected him from his home life. Some accounts suggest that his wife resented their new meager lifestyle. Divorce wasn't a logical option, so Xanthippe made do. Diogenes Laertius recorded many stories that show Socrates's humor and good nature with regards to his impoverished earthly existence and his brash intellect.
             Once his wife Xanthippe became infuriated at his indifference toward her reproach. She then drenched him with water out of frustration. When later asked of the incident Socrates responded, "Did I not say that Xanthippe's thunder would end in rain?" One man spoke up and called her temper intolerable. Socrates justified his endurance of it by saying, "But I have got used to it, like the creaky crank of an old well. You do not mind the cackle of geese?" The man replied, "No, but they furnish me with eggs and goslings." "And Xanthippe," said Socrates, "is the mother of my children. When she ripped the coat off my back in the market and you urged me to hit back, I abstained. Why? Yes, by Zeus, so that while we are sparring each of you may say, "Good for you, Socrates!" "Way to go, Xanthippe!"" Socrates had an interesting perspective on his unmanageable wife.