“A view of the unseemly actions of drunken men is the most effectual dissuasive from wine.”

—  Anacharsis

As quoted in Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Chapter "Life of Anacharsis", 1702 edition, John Nicholson, p. 55

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