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The ancient Roman/Latin phrase for what OP describes is:
~~En~~ In vino, veritas.
In wine, there is truth.
(thanks to antonim for the correction)
The phrase goes back even further to the Ancient Greeks, the exact same meaning in Greek ( en oino, aletheia ), but the Roman/Latin phrase is more well known.
People have known for literal multiple thousands of years that... people do not say stupid shit because they are drunk, the alcohol made them do it... people say stupid shit when they are drunk because they have these stupid thoughts and beliefs all the time, but are normally smart enough to not say them out loud.
In, not en, and it is written without the comma.
(Finally the two years of suffering through Latin classes have paid off!)
Fuck!
I knew I couldn't count on a classics major to appear out of nowhere and correct me!
=P
jk jk, its appreciated, I'll fix it, lol.
The book I'm reading (Incognito by David Eagleman) mentioned exactly that.
But there are many things that people have "known" for years that turned out to be untrue as our ability to understand the physical world increased. Now we're finding that our unconscious mind accounts for more of what we think than our conscious mind can control.
It is absolutely true that many ancient or even fairly modern bits of 'common wisdom' have been innacurate, or wildly utterly wrong.
... but, at the same time... some of it actually does hold.
I grew up with an alcoholic dad, basically all his brothers and sisters and mom and dad were as well.
They'll all tell you how they really feel when inebriated...
Yay for Italian heritage, rofl, I am a keeper of this ancient wisdom, it courses through my very veins.
... and by that I mean oh lord, I also get drunk very easily, fortunately I've had enough self control to not ever develop an alcohol addiction...
To steal another Greek phrase and render it in Latin:
modus omnibus in rebus