William Shakespeare - John Milton - Francois de la Rocheoucauld -
But as a surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream II ii 143-144
We are all diseased,
And with our surfeiting and wanton hours
Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
And we must bleed for it. William Shakespeare, II Henry IV 54-57, Archbishop of York
They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice I ii 5
How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo’s lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar’d sweets
Where no crude surfeit reigns. John Milton
One sort of inconstancy springs from levity or weakness of mind, and makes us accept everyone’s opinion, and another more excusable comes from a surfeit of matter. François de la Rochefoucauld