The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
Intemperance is the only vulgarity.
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.