Intemperance Quotes

“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . .
Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.”
― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics