Sublime

I was just a common soak.

“Therefore, explain why a wise person shouldn’t get drunk—not with words, but by the facts of its ugliness and offensiveness. It’s most easy to prove that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond proper measure, are but punishments.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 83.27

orgulhosas do teor alcoólico no sangue que as impossibilitava

Montaigne é cauteloso com o êxtase e despreza o excesso de bebida, que a seu ver é um êxtase do corpo, e não da mente. Essas considerações enquadram-se num rol da variedade e da dessemelhança dos costumes à mesa que Montaigne observou em sua viagem à Itália. A embriaguez é um vício grosseiro que rebaixa o homem ao estado animal.

Further, one has to take the worst sort of slave as one’s master, persons who divide their time between oil and wine, who spend a day to their liking if they work up a good sweat and then make up for the loss of fluids by drink, which has more effect when one is depleted in that way.* Drinking and sweating—a life full of heartburn!

Symbel-gāl (feast-lustful) is when you are so overwhelmed by the pleasures of food and drink that you are unable to focus on what's important. The word is a hapax in a Judgement Day poem, which tells about a man who spends too much time thinking about the pleasures of worldly life. The man forgets to pay attention to the fate of his soul: 'Little

Eu não me fazia de rogado e aceitava esses convites, e beber uma garrafa inteira de destilado ao longo da noite deixou de ser a exceção para se tornar a regra, de maneira que com frequência eu cambaleava pelo vilarejo sem me lembrar de nada no dia seguinte.

embriaguez,