Shakespeare on Visceral Factors and Their Underestimation

For every man with his affects is born,

Not by might master'd but by special grace

(Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 1, Scene 1, lines 155-156)

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'tis all men's office to speak patience

To those that wring under the load of sorrow,

But no man's virtue nor sufficiency

To be so moral when he shall endure

The like himself.

(Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 2095-2099)

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For there was never yet philosopher

That could endure the toothache patiently

(Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 2103-2104)

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Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as

well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why

they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so

ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

(As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 1476-1479)

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I may be negligent, foolish and fearful; 
In every one of these no man is free, 
But that his negligence, his folly, fear, 
Among the infinite doings of the world, 
Sometime puts forth.

(The Winter's Tale, Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 351-355)