A man had become so intoxicated that he had lost his reason and was in the most deplorable state, for the drunkenness to which he had given himself up had made him lose all honour. Having drunk both the clear and the turbid, his head and his feet were alike undone by his unhappy condition. A passer-by saw this with displeasure; he put the drunken man into a sack and was carrying him thus to his home, when he met on the road another man likewise overcome by wine. This second drunkard could walk only with the support of others, for he was completely intoxicated. When the man in the sack saw the other in this wretched state, he said to him: “O unfortunate man! You should have drunk two cups less than I, so that you might walk as I do, free and alone.”
Thus this man saw the condition of his fellow and not his own; now,
Thus this man saw the condition of his fellow and not his own; now,