An idea from Nicomachean Ethics

Socrates held that no one knowingly acts against what they judge best. The facts say otherwise. In the grip of desire, a person can still recite what they know, the way a drunk man recites poetry, without the knowledge doing any work.

From Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

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