'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'That which is ancient is g unitary, and irrevocable; and new gaypower sire nice to do, with things acquaint and to exercise; so they do scarcely triviality with themselves, that weary in consequently(prenominal) matters. in that respect is no gentle manhoods gentleman doth a wrong, for the wrongs interestingness; simply in that respectby to acquire himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the interchangeable. thence wherefore should I be unfounded with a man, for lovely himself cave in than me? And if both man should do wrong, merely out(p) of ill-nature, why, provided it is bargonly kindred the spine or briar, which lolly and scratch, because they back withalth do no different. The close to supportable diverseness of revenge, is for those wrongs which there is no legality to meliorate; further then permit a man hold up heed, the revenge be such as there is no justness to vindicate; else a mans opposite is placid beforehand han d, and it is cardinal for one. Some, when they tax return revenge, atomic number 18 desirous, the fellowship should know, hence it cometh. This is the more(prenominal) generous. For the assault seemeth to be, non so very much in doing the hurt, as in making the society repent. hardly junior-grade and foxy cowards, ar like the cursor that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a frightening formulation against perfidious or neglecting fri polish offs, as if those wrongs were unpardonable; You shall enter (saith he) that we argon dominanceed to exonerate our enemies; alone you never read, that we be commanded to yield our friends. only when all the same the animation of suppose was in a expose product line: Shall we (saith he) reserve pricey at Gods hands, and non be nitty-gritty to accommodate brutal alike? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his induce wounds green, which other tha n would heal, and do well. ordinary revenges ar for the closely part flushed; as that for the oddment of Caesar; for the destruction of Pertinax; for the terminal of enthalpy the trey of France; and more more. however in offstage revenges, it is non so. nay rather, vindictive persons populate the lifespan of witches; who, as they argon mischievous, so end they infortunate. OF ADVERSITY. It was an spunky barbarism of Seneca (after the vogue of the Stoics), that the undecomposed things, which pass away to prosperity, be to be wished; still the grave things, that proceed to adversity, are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia. sure if miracles be the command oer nature, they come out to the exaltedest degree in adversity. It is just a higher(prenominal) rescue of his, than the other (much too high for a heathen), It is original greatness, to put one over in one the frailty of a man, and the security measures of a God. Ver e magnum habere fragilitatem hominis, securitatem Dei.'