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What the Fathers say

Proverbs 20:1

Western Saints

Bonaventure

"Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness is tumultuous; whoever delights in these will not be wise." And elsewhere: "Wine and women make the wise to fall away and will reprove the sensible." You have a ready example in that Solomon, who fell away on account of women even to the worship of idolatry, who nevertheless was filled with wisdom like a river. If there were a tavern in which wine were sold that would induce forgetfulness of all wisdom, I believe no one would be so foolish as to buy that wine. …

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 9 ↗