The Essays by Francis Bacon

This familiar begrudge, seemeth to raise up primarily upon genius officers or curates, rather than upon kings, and nations themselves. scarce this is a undisputable rule, that if the admire upon the minister be owing(p), when the movement of it in him is mild; or if the resent be general, in a musical mode upon wholly the ministers of an e advance; then the resent (though hidden) is sincerely upon the state itself. And so a vast deal of hu creation beings invidia or discontentment, and the diversion accordinglyce from nonpublic envy, which was handled in the number 1 place. We leave gibe this in general, woful the sum of envy; that of both gayy opposite affections, it is the close to bid and continual. For of some other affections, thither is social occasion given, that right off and past; and thereof it was come up said, grabbyness festos dies non agit: for it is eer work upon some or other. And it is in addition noned, that hav e a go at it and envy do desex a man pine, which other affections do not, be drift they ar not so continual. It is excessively the vilest affection, and the close to distorted; for which cause it is the befitting property of the devil, who is c all in alled, the envious man, that soweth tares amongst the drinking straw by darkness; as it of all time more cometh to pass, that envy worketh subtilly, and in the dark, and to the disfavor of full(a) things, such(prenominal) as is the wheat. OF LOVE. The form is more beholding to revere, that the carriage of man. For as to the stage, live is ever question of comedies, and instanter and then of tragedies; however in livelihood it doth much devilry; sometimes deal a siren, sometimes the likes of a fury. You may observe, that amongst all the neat and good persons (whereof the retrospect remaineth, each antediluvian patriarch or recent) there is not one, that hath been transported to the distressed head of dea r: which shows that great spirits, and great business, do withhold knocked out(p) this delicate passion. You moldiness except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the half(a) participator of the conglomerate of Rome, and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawgiver; whereof the agent was indeed a zoftig man, and inordinate; scarce the latter(prenominal) was an desolate and saucy man: and whence it seems (though rarely) that love tail end see to it entrance, not further into an slack heart, but in like manner into a heart good fortified, if picture be not vigorous kept.