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Impious persons, whose minds have gone beyond control due to intoxication, can not discriminate between wife and mother.
Poor man whose mind has been thrown out of gear by wine is not able to distinguish between himself and the other. He considers himself master and the master, a servant.
A drunkard, rolling like a carcass on a highway, attracts street dog to urinate in his mouth open like a gaping hole.
The man who is deeply drunk lies naked on road and gives away the most confidential secrets very easily.
Beauty, fame, intelligence, and wealth leave him who is drunk, just as various pictures lose their quality if black colour is poured over them.
A man who is drunk dances like one possessed by a devil; he cries loudly like him who is overpowered with grief, and rolls on the ground as one afflicted with burning fever.,
Wine, comparable with a deadly poison only, creates looseness of limbs, deadens sense-organs, and produces deep swoon.
Discrimination, self-control, knowledge, truthfulness, purity, compassion and forgiveness--all these take leave of him who drinks, as blades of grass are burnt by a tiny spark of fire.
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