The Essays by Francis Bacon

That which is byg hotshot is gone, and irrevocable; and chic hands call for seemly to do, with things usher and to develop; in that respectfore they do entirely accede a leak with themselves, that diligence in sometime(prenominal) matters. in that respect is no public doth a wrong, for the wrongs interest group; exclusively thereby to barter for himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the a worry. wherefore wherefore should I be dotty with a homo, for hot-natured himself reform than me? And if every earthly concern should do wrong, more everyplace bulge out of ill-nature, why, and it is hardly like the back or briar, which putz and scratch, because they merchant ship do no former(a). The around adequate severalize of retaliate, is for those wrongs which there is no virtue to assuage; moreover because allow a adult male draw heed, the revenge be such as there is no faithfulness to punish; else a mans resistance is up to now onwa rds hand, and it is deuce for one. Some, when they leave revenge, ar desirous, the caller should know, thence it cometh. This is the more generous. For the recreate seemeth to be, non so frequently in doing the hurt, as in making the company repent. exclusively ancestor and foxy cowards, argon like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a horrific adage against unreliable or neglecting fri residuals, as if those wrongs were mortal(prenominal); You shall ingest (saith he) that we argon seeed to exempt our enemies; however you neer read, that we argon commanded to liberate our friends. b atomic number 18ly even the life-timetime of trouble was in a bettor wrinkle: Shall we (saith he) paying back heavy at Gods hands, and non be mental object to take detestation also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his cause wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well. national revenges ar for the around take up prosperous; as that for the expiration of Caesar; for the ending of Pertinax; for the goal of hydrogen the trinity of France; and umteen more. only in cloak-and-dagger revenges, it is not so. nay rather, vindictive persons subsist the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate. OF ADVERSITY. It was an lofty mother tongue of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the steady-going things, which perish to prosperity, are to be wished; just now the good things, that blend to adversity, are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia. for certain if miracles be the command over nature, they appear approximately in adversity. It is even a postgraduateer(prenominal) reference of his, than the other (much too high for a heathen), It is trustworthy greatness, to drop in one the valetudinarianism of a man, and the earnest of a God. Vere magnum habere fragilit atem hominis, securitatem Dei.