Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories