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Remarks of eminent persons on Temperance, &c.

Soon in the luscious feast themselves they lost,
And drank oblivion of their native coast ;
Instant her circling wand the Goddess waves,
To hogs transforms them, and the sty receives.
Cowley.

In proportion as luxury increased, the life of man was abbreviated :— the seven kings of Rome reigned longer than the first twenty emperors.
Addison.

It is said of Diogenes, that meeting a young man who was going to a feast, he took him up in the street, as one who was running into imminent danger, had he not prevented him.
Anacharsis.

This celebrated Scythian philosopher being asked how it was possible a person might contract a dislike to wine, answered, by beholding the indecencies of the drunken.
Cicero.

Temperance is the source of great peace and tranquillity to men, for it brings their desires and aversions under the laws of reason.
Cornaro.

Of all parts of a feast, that which a man leaves does him the most good.
Cadogan, M. D.

However common it may be for men that suffer to complain of the evils of life as the unavoidable lot of humanity, they are the sole authors of their miseries ; most of them, however, he affirms they acquire. All chronic diseases, most undoubtedly, men create by their own indulgencies ; nor will this physician allow of hereditary gout.
Epicurus.

Give me but bread and water. and I will dispute the point of felicity with Jupiter himself.
Hippocrates.

If a man eat little and drink little, he brings no deadly disorder upon himself.
Homan.

Intemperance may properly be termed the executioner of mankind, (generis humani carnifex.)
Plato.

To eat to satiety twice in one day, and never to sleep alone—This is a way of life in which no person will ever become wise.
Price, D. D.

The black catalogue of diseases which ravage human life is the offspring of luxury and false refinements of civil society, intemperance and debauchery lay the foundations of numberless sufferings, and terminate in premature and miserable deaths.
Pythagoras.

Drunkenness is the study of madness. Choose the best kind of life, and custom will soon render it permanently agreeable.
Seneca.

Inebriety is neither more nor less than a voluntary insanity..
Socrates.

'Nature's real wants are few, but the cravings of fancy are infinite.
Temple, Sir William.

O temperance ! thou virtue without pride and fortune, without envy, thou best guardian of youth and support of old age, the precept of reason as well as of religion, and physician of the soul as well as the body.
Zeno.

A wise man will drink wine, but will not suffer himself to be intoxicated by it. This celebrated philosopher was highly pleased with the morality of the cynics, but disgusted with their immodesty and impudence. He therefore instituted a new sect, which from his teaching in a porch or portico were styled Stoics ; his reputation soon spread all over Greece, and he became, in a short time, the most distinguished philosopher in that country. Zeno lived to the age of ninety-eight, without ever being attacked by any diseases. He taught philosophy forty-eight years, and died in the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympiad, and was regretted by all who were friends to virtue and learning. The Athenians caused a tomb to be erected sacred to his memory, in the suburb of Caranica, and by a public decree gave him a crown of gold, and caused extraordinary honours to be paid to his memory, because, as the decree expresses it, he perfectly excited the youth under his care to virtue, and always led a life conformable to the precepts he inculcated and taught.