More than two thousand years ago, in a comedy staged in Athens, Dionysus, the god of wine, set out the right measure for drinking.
Three cups for the sensible. The first for health. The second for love and pleasure. The third for sleep: once that one is drunk, the wise go home.
By the fourth, we are no longer ourselves. With the fifth comes shouting, with the sixth a brawl. The seventh brings black eyes, the eighth the guards. The ninth stirs up bile, and with the tenth the furniture gets broken.
Don’t worry: Greek wine was much stronger than ours, so strong they had to drink it mixed with water. Dionysus’s advice still holds, though: let’s drink in moderation, but above all with pleasure!