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For wine leads to more wine.  It does not satisfy a need, but produces an inexorable need for another drink, making those who are drunk thirsty and arousing in them an even-greater appetite for more.  But even though they imagine that they have an insatiable desire for drink, they experience or rather deliberately choose something quite the opposite of this.  For by continual self-indulgence they dull their senses.  Just as too much light blinds the eyes, and those buffeted by loud noises are made completely deaf by the excessive beating that their ears suffer, so too drunkards fail to notice that they destroy whatever pleasure they experience by their excessive love of pleasure.  They find the wine tasteless and watery even if it is undiluted.  And when in its place they drink fresh wine, they find it warm, even if it is completely unmixed, even if it is ice-cold, and it cannot quench that internal fire that burns within them from an excessive amount of wine.

—St. Basil the Great, On Fasting and Feasts: St. Basil the Great, Homily Against Drunkards