The Boy Who Loved Wicked

by C.P. Harris

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” ~Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.’”

“‘To find yourself, think for yourself,’” he struggled to push out. “Socrates,”

Courage...is knowing...what not to fear.’” “Plato,”

Plato had also said, “Only the dead has seen the end of war.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ~Plato

“If wealth and equity were the rewards for ruling, then all men were doomed. The great intentions for the many curdle into what’s best for the one.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ~Socrates

“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.” ~Plato

“What we don’t seek out can’t hurt us. Or evolve us.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees

“Pythagoras may have planted the seed, but certainly you know who watered the soil. He believed in the immortal soul. Upon death—” “—The soul enters into a new body.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~Aristotle

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” ~Plato

sometimes, people did bad things for no reason. No, that wasn’t true. Sometimes, people did bad things simply because it felt good.

“Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.” ~Plato

“Love is a serious mental illness.” ~Plato

Be as you wish to seem.’” In other words: be happy, be hopeful, be me. Socrates.

“Choice, not chance, determines our destiny.” ~Aristotle

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is to not get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.” ~Socrates

“Love is appreciating to such a degree that you feel overwhelmed with joy.” ~Plato

“We cannot learn without pain.” ~Aristotle

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” ~Plato

“Sometimes, you’ve gotta let people live out their own choices even when you know it’s wrong. Sometimes, they need to see for themselves that it won’t work. They need to be able to say they tried.” She’d said it could be a dangerous thing to get in that way of that.

We were battered and bloodied. There were more bruises than orgasms and every second felt borrowed. Stolen. We were criminals. We were toxic. We were fearless for the last time. We were beautiful for the last time too.

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like.” ~Socrates

“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” ~Plato

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” ~Socrates

“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.” ~Plato

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~Aristotle

We’ll sail the rocky waters and navigate the turbulent skies together. Because the best things in life are the people you love, and I’ll have that. And the best part of a long journey is coming back home.

Love wasn’t a single act, but a daily practice of the most mundane. The accumulation of the little things. It wasn’t about specific events, or the intensity. It came down to consistency, to working hard and exercising the heart daily even when we looked in the mirror and didn’t see the benefits, because love took time and patience. And things are most rewarding when we sweat to get them.

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” ~Plato

I promise to love you without condition, to feed your mind as well as your heart. I promise to never take who you are and who you aren’t for granted, and I promise to never hold your flaws against you. They say the more you love the more you suffer. Well I would suffer unimaginable things for you,

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”