"And do you think, you fool" added socrates, "That kisses of love are not venomous because you perceive not the poison? Know that a beautiful person is a more dangerous animal than scorpions, because these cannot wound unless they touch us; but beauty strikes at a distance: from what place soever we can but behold her, she darts her venom upon us, and overthrows our judgement. And perhaps for this reason the Loves are represented with bows and arrows, because a beautiful face wounds us from afar. I advise you, therefore, Xenophon, when you chance to see a beauty to fly from it, without looking behind you. And for you, Critobulus, I think it convenient that you should enjoin yourself a year's absence, which will not be too long a time to heal you of your wound."

"Do you consider what happens to you after you have kissed a beautiful face? Do you not lose your liberty? Do you not become a slave? Do you not engage yourself in a vast expense to procure a sinful pleasure? Do you not find yourself in an incapacity of doing what is good, and that you subject yourself to the necessity of employing your whole time and person in the pursuit of what you would despise if your reason were not corrupted?"

Found some Red Pill wisdom in "The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates" by Xenophon (available for fuck all in iBooks if you're interested in reading more)

TLDR: Socrates advocates Men Going Their Own Way.

What do you guys think of this? Are there any more classical-era Red Pill truths that you know of?