The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk  and then in the morning  when they are sober  the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made  and if it is then approved they act on it  if not  they set it aside. Sometimes  however  they are sober at their first deliberations  but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.
Herodotus
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