Seneca the Younger Quotes

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

Although Drunkenness be justly termed a vice which the Salvages are ignorant of, yet the benefit is very great that comes to the planters by the sale of strong liquor to the Salvages, who are much taken with the delight of it; for they will pawn their wits, to purchase the acquaintance of it.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

[Referring to alcohol:] After the lapse of nearly fifty years of undisputed political freedom, the blood-freezing clank of a cruel bondage is still heard.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

If we could make men sober, we would have no slavery.

I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

The important thing is to be drunk.

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.