Power and wine often lead people to tell the truth.

Herodotus asserted that if the Persians decided something while drunk, they made it a rule to reconsider it when sober. Authors after Herodotus have added that if the Persians made a decision while sober, they made it a rule to reconsider it when they were drunk.

The BabylonianTalmud contains the passage: “In three things is a man revealed: in his wine goblet, in his purse, and in his wrath.

Many a true word hath been spoke in jest.

Courage is the only virtue that cannot be faked.