Socrates Describes Your Ex-Boyfriend
The boy is forced to follow with indignant cries to heaven, still not realising the fundamental truth; he should not in the first place have yielded to a lover, to a man necessarily out of his mind; a non-lover, a man perfectly in his senses, is what it should have been. The wrong choice means surrendering oneself to a man who is disloyal, bad-tempered, jealous, offensive, harmful to one’s income, harmful to one’s physical being, most harmful of all to the development of one’s soul; and there neither is nor ever can be anything of more real importance in heaven or earth than the soul. (Plato, PHAEDRUS, 241)
