Why, that isn’t drunkenness, it is sobriety and
temperance! I should like to hear just what he
said, if possible. It is far, very far from right, in
my opinion, to be stingy with it, especially if the
person who wants to hear is a friend and has the
same interests.
Cheer up, good soul! you spur a willing horse,
as Homer says,Iliad 8, 293.
and if you hadn’t got ahead of me,
I myself should have begged you to listen to my
tale, for I want to have you bear witness before the
world that my madness has reason in it. Then, too,
I take pleasure in calling his words to mind
frequently, and have already made it a regular
exercise : even if nobody happens to be at hand, I
repeat them to myself two or three times a day just
the same.