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921. Behold the men who are addicted to drink: they will never be feared by their enemies, and even the glory they have acquired they will lose.

922. Let none drink: but if they desire, let those men drink who care not for the esteem of worthy men.

923. The sight of the man who is intoxicated is an abomination even unto his own mother: what must it be then to the worthy ?

924. Behold the man who is addicted to the low vice of drunkenness: the fair one called Shame turneth her back upon him.

925. It is the veriest idiocy to spend one's substance and obtain in return only insensibility. Rh