Of pleasure. Momentaneum est quod delectat, æternum quod cruciat.
It is better to eate fishes with Christ, then a messe of pottage with Esau.
Nil turpius quam plus ingerrere quam possis digerere.
The glutton eates like a dogge, and lives like a hogg, having his soule as salt onely to keepe his body from stinkinge.
He that filleth his body emptieth his soule.
Id pro Deo colitur quod præ omnibus diligitur.
Vtinam, sayth Augustine, tam finiatur quam definitur ebrietas.
Bacchus painted yonge, because he makes men like children, vnable to goe or speake, naked because discouers all.
It is noe better excuse for a drunkard to say that it was his owne that he spent, then yf one should say he would cut his owne throate, for the knife that should doe it is his owne.
Drunkennes is the divells birding synne; the drunkard like the stale that allures other to be taken like it selfe.