On drunkenness
83:16
Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The second volume of Seneca's moral letters to Lucilius. Each letter contains Seneca's advice and wisdom won from a life of Roman politics.
16.
So let us abolish all such harangues as this: “No man in the bonds of drunkenness has power over his soul.
As the very vats are burst by new wine, and as the dregs at the bottom are raised to the surface by the strength of the fermentation; so, when the wine effervesces, whatever lies hidden below is brought up and made visible.
As a man overcome by liquor cannot keep down his food when he has over-indulged in wine, so he cannot keep back a secret either.
He pours forth impartially both his own secrets and those of other persons.”
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On drunkenness
Location: Chapter 83, Section 16
Content:
16.
So let us abolish all such harangues as this: “No man in the bonds of drunkenness has power over his soul.
As the very vats are burst by new wine, and as the dregs at the bottom are raised to the surface by the strength of the fermentation; so, when the wine effervesces, whatever lies hidden below is brought up and made visible.
As a man overcome by liquor cannot keep down his food when he has over-indulged in wine, so he cannot keep back a secret either.
He pours forth impartially both his own secrets and those of other persons.”