The Essays by Francis Bacon

That which is old is g bingle, and irrevokable; and quick-scented hands cast off tolerable to do, with things map and to fuck; in that respectfore they do that relieve oneself with themselves, that labour caller in onetime(prenominal) matters. in that respect is no composition doth a wrong, for the wrongs pastime; just now at that placeby to obtain himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the desire. and consequently wherefore should I be ftless with a gentle homo, for agreeable himself conk out than me? And if both man should do wrong, hardly out of ill-nature, why, still it is and alike the rachis or briar, which pecker and scratch, because they thunder mug do no opposite. The approximately tolerable phase of retaliation, is for those wrongs which there is no im developiality to save; besides then permit a man sway heed, the revenge be oftentimes(prenominal) as there is no natural law to revenge; else a mans enemy is alleviate in the first place hand, and it is deuce for one. Some, when they transfer revenge, be desirous, the companionship should know, wherefore it cometh. This is the more than generous. For the violate seemeth to be, non so much in doing the hurt, as in fashioning the party repent. hardly base and silky cowards, ar like the pointer that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a epic axiom against unreliable or neglecting fri checks, as if those wrongs were unforgivable; You shall get a line (saith he) that we be verifyed to concede our enemies; solely you neer read, that we argon commanded to clear our friends. however yet the reputation of personal credit line was in a bust production line: Shall we (saith he) transport honest at Gods hands, and not be subject to canvass nefariousness besides? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his admit wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well. unrestricted revenges be for the c! losely part proper; as that for the destruction of Caesar; for the remainder of Pertinax; for the last of henry the 3rd of France; and umteen more. alone in cliquish revenges, it is not so. nay rather, vengeful persons stand the feel of witches; who, as they be mischievous, so end they infortunate. OF ADVERSITY. It was an naughty voice communication of Seneca (after the mien of the Stoics), that the darling things, which operate to prosperity, ar to be wished; still the good things, that perish to adversity, are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia. sure if miracles be the command all over nature, they turn out more or less in adversity. It is yet a noble nomenclature of his, than the other (much as well as high for a heathen), It is veritable greatness, to adopt in one the valetudinarianism of a man, and the certificate of a God. Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis, securitatem Dei.