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Quotation from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
“For the effect of the wine, does but remove Dissimulation; and take from them the sight of the deformity of their Passions”
Leviathan, Part I, Ch. VIII (1651 text (original spelling))
Drunkenness is used as evidence that madness is passion unconcealed, since drunk men behave like mad men according to their dominant passions.
Citation: "For the effect of the wine, does but remove Dissimulation; and take from them the sight of the deformity of their Passions" — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. VIII (1651 text (original spelling)). (id leviathan-q6)
Portrait: Thomas Hobbes (copy after an original of c.1669–1670), John Michael Wright, Public domain.
