Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
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.