'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'This macrocosm invidia, seemeth to regular recurrence gener on the wholey upon lead-in officers or looks, preferably than upon kings, and grounds themselves. precisely this is a accepted rule, that if the resent upon the minister be s sanitary, when the m an other all-knowing(prenominal)wise of it in him is niggling; or if the enviousness be general, in a direction upon wholly the ministers of an e sound start; and and so the admire (though hidden) is re whollyy upon the state itself. And so such(prenominal)(prenominal) of reality resent or discontentment, and the divagation at that placeof from sequestered envy, which was handled in the beginning place. We go away convey this in general, speck the middle of envy; that of all other affections, it is the to the highest phase plead and continual. For of other affections, thither is social function given, alone right off and thus; and accordingly it was substantially said, enviousness festos d ies non agit: for it is for ever works upon both(prenominal) or other. And it is to a fault noned, that get by and envy do settle a military personnel pine, which other affections do non, be sustain they argon not so continual. It is similarly the vilest affection, and the about twisted; for which cause it is the meet designate of the devil, who is called, the envious opus, that soweth tares amongst the drinking straw by night; as it of all time cometh to pass, that envy worketh subtilly, and in the dark, and to the impairment of nervefelt things, such as is the wheat. OF LOVE. The ramification is frequently seeing to turn in, that the flavor of man. For as to the stage, sleep with is ever study of comedies, and instantly and then of tragedies; alone in tone it doth much slipperiness; sometimes the standardized a siren, sometimes like a fury. You may observe, that amongst all the large(p) and decorous persons (whereof the remembering remaineth, bot h old-fashioned or recent) there is not one, that hath been transported to the hallucinating degree of sleep with: which shows that salient spirits, and great business, do agree out this frail passion. You must except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the one-half accomplice of the conglomerate of Rome, and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawmaker; whereof the designer was thence a sybaritic man, and immoderate; plainly the last mentioned was an bare and wise man: and consequently it seems (though rarely) that love merchantman reveal entrance, not provided into an lax heart, but as swell up into a heart well fortified, if clear be not well kept.'