Horace – one of ancient Rome’s most prized lyricists – once dedicated a whole ode to his nearby wine-filled amphora, declaring on what was likely to have been a fun night: “We shall not deign to go to bed,/But we shall paint creation red.” Similarly, the English bon vivant Lord Byron displayed his Epicureanism with the lines “Better to hold the sparkling grape,/Than nurse the earth-worm’s slimy brood.” One of literature’s undeniable life lessons is that hedonists make fantastic poets.
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