A glass decanter filled with violet liquid beneath a floating crown of wire spirals.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Drunkeness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

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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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