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nietzsche, genealogy of morality, book 3 section 7 Similarly, the philosopher shudders mortally at marriage, together with all that could persuade him to it-marriage as a fatal hindrance on the way to the optimum. Up to the present what great philosophers have been married? Heracleitus, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Kant, Schopenhauer-they were not married, and, further, one cannot imagine them as married. A married philosopher belongs to comedy, that is my rule; as for that exception of a Socrates-the malicious Socrates married himself, it seems, ironice, just to prove this very rule.