על השיכרות מ״טOn Drunkenness 49
א׳
1[203] We see then that the mind is fitly represented as labouring under absence of knowledge, when its two daughters, Deliberation and Assent, are in contact with it and become its bed-fellows. For we are told, “He knew not when they slept and rose up” (Gen. 19:33, 35).
ב׳
2[204] The mind, it seems, does not grasp clearly or firmly either sleeping or waking, or yet rest or motion, but it is just when it thinks it has shewn its powers of deliberation at their best, that it proves to be most lacking in that power, for the issue of events bears no resemblance to its expectations.
ג׳
3[205] And again when it has been pleased to subscribe to anything as true, it earns the condemnation passed on reckless thinking, for it appears that what it once believed in and thought to be most firmly established is really untrustworthy and insecure. The conclusion is that since things so often turn out the opposite of what we expect, the safest course is to suspend judgement.
