Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.

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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

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Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

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