While you commend sobriety in individual men and believe that those who practice it enjoy the most secure existence and are the best among your fellow citizens, you do not think it fit to make the state practice it. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 119.
Image: Mosaic of the god of wine and revelry Dionysus, Roman, 2nd century CE, from Tunisia (PD)
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