But now, sir, after such a large pot as you have seen me take, I boldly affirm, that all passions which have been fixed in the soul a long time raise ill humors in the body, which by continuance growing strong enough to be, as it were, a new nature, being excited by any intervening accident, force men, though unwilling, to their accustomed passions.

Consider the timorous, they are afraid even of those things that preserve them.

Consider the pettish, they are angry with their best and dearest friends.

Consider the amorous and lascivious, in the height of their fury they dare violate a Vestal.

For custom is very powerful to draw the temper of the body to anything that is suitable to it; and he that is apt to fall will stumble at everything that lies in his way.