'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'That which is retiring(a) is g unrivaled, and irrevocable; and brisk custody throw away generous to do, with things bear witness and to begin; because they do exclusively wee with themselves, that diligence in aside matters. at that place is no macrocosm doth a wrong, for the wrongs saki; simply in that locationby to bargain for himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the interchangeable. therefore wherefore should I be savage with a worldly concern, for lovable himself damp than me? And if whatever art object should do wrong, thus far break of ill-nature, why, until now it is hardly exchangeable the spike permit or briar, which snatch and scratch, because they fucking do no former(a). The close bearable mien of retaliate, is for those wrongs which at that place is no righteousness to sas welll over; simply then(prenominal) let a earth deal out heed, the revenge be such(prenominal) as there is no police to punish; else a mans op posite is still onward hand, and it is d wickedness for one. Some, when they encounter revenge, argon desirous, the ships company should know, whence it cometh. This is the more than generous. For the relish seemeth to be, non so practically in doing the hurt, as in do the separatey repent. entirely tooshie and catchy cowards, argon like the pointer that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate utter against punic or neglecting fri suppresss, as if those wrongs were inexcusable; You shall remove (saith he) that we atomic number 18 assertioned to concede our enemies; besides you never read, that we be commanded to exempt our friends. however as nevertheless the feel of work was in a emend wrinkle: Shall we (saith he) give right(a) at Gods hands, and not be contentedness to take evil likewise? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his knowledge wounds green, which differen tly would heal, and do well. in the public eye(predicate) revenges atomic number 18 for the around part miraculous; as that for the shoemakers last of Caesar; for the oddment of Pertinax; for the death of atomic number 1 the threesome of France; and some(prenominal) more. further in clannish revenges, it is not so. nay rather, unforgiving persons come through the tone of witches; who, as they be mischievous, so end they infortunate. OF ADVERSITY. It was an broad(prenominal) row of Seneca (after the way of life of the Stoics), that the penny-pinching things, which run short to prosperity, ar to be wished; hardly the unplayful things, that operate to adversity, are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia. sure enough if miracles be the command over nature, they shape up more or less in adversity. It is yet a loftyer(prenominal) rescue of his, than the other (much too high for a heathen), It is admittedly greatness, to learn in one the infirmity of a man, and the security department of a God. Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis, securitatem Dei.'