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Drunkeness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The comparison presents drunkenness as a chosen loss of reason. Its sharpness comes from the word voluntary: the speaker treats the surrender of judgment as something a person brings about deliberately. This is a critical description of intoxication, framed through a pointed analogy.
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