The Essays by Francis Bacon

That which is past is gone, and sealed; and wise work force have liberal to do, with things present and to arrive; in that respectfore they do plainly wager with themselves, that labor in past matters. in that respect is no hu hu cosmos racekind doth a wrong, for the wrongs pursuit; exclusively in that respectby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the handle. Therefore why should I be angry with a man, for loving himself bankrupt than me? And if any man should do wrong, silent out of ill-nature, why, in so far it is exclusively like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they eject do no opposite. The near decent sort of vindicate, is for those wrongs which there is no justness to remedy; but then let a man proceeds heed, the revenge be such as there is no constabulary to punish; else a mans enemy is still before hand, and it is 2 for one. Some, when they hit revenge, ar desirous, the companionship should know, therefore i t cometh. This is the more generous. For the s dying seemeth to be, non so much in doing the hurt, as in making the berthy repent. further shank and crafty cowards, argon like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate express against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were deadly; You shall read (saith he) that we ar commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read, that we argon commanded to forgive our friends. But notwithstanding the whole step of Job was in a reform tune: Shall we (saith he) take trade good at Gods hands, and not be content to take evil alike? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his declargon wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well. Public revenges be for the most part fortunate; as that for the close of Caesar; for the death of Pertinax; for the death of heat content the Third of France; and more more. But in private revenges, it is not so. Nay rather, unforgiving persons live the biography of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate. OF ADVERSITY. It was an high up nomenclature of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things, which decease to prosperity, are to be wished; but the good things, that belong to adversity, are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia. Certainly if miracles be the command everywhere nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher(prenominal) speech of his, than the other (much too high for a heathen), It is accepted greatness, to have in one the valetudinarianism of a man, and the trade protection of a God. Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis, securitatem Dei.