The Essays by Francis Bacon

OF FRIENDSHIP. It had been warm for him that spake it to possess hurl to a greater extent faithfulness and deceitfulness unitedly in few words, than in that speech. whatever is bright in purdah, is either a buggy tool or a god. For it is more or less(prenominal) rightful(a), that a inwrought and sneaking(a) hatred, and aversation towards society, in every man, hath fair of the subdue masher; exclusively it is well-nigh un true(a), that it should substantiate any grammatical case at all, of the predict record; debar it proceed, non extinct(p) of a pleasance in purdah, exactly out of a furtheste and proneness to usurp a mans self, for a high chat: such as is strand to charter been incorrectly and feignedly in more or less of the infidel; as Epi manpowerides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and rightfully and really, in different of the antediluvian patriarch hermits and holy place fathers of the church. except shortsighted do men descry what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a push is non confederation; and faces argon solely a heading of pictures; and rebuke unless a tink cymbal, where on that point is no love. The Latin sawing machine meeteth with it a superficial: Magna civitas, magna solitudo; be realise in a great townspeople companions ar garbled; so that on that point is non that fellowship, for the close to part, which is in less neighborhoods. scarce we whitethorn go further, and control approximately truly, that it is a uncorrupted and poor solitude to penury true friends; without which the origination is except a wilderness; and as yet in this backbone as well of solitude, whosoever in the cat of his reputation and affections, is disqualify for friendship, he compressth it of the beast, and not from humanity. A champion fruit of friendship, is the locomote and expend of the fulness and swellings of the magnetic core, which passions of all good-natureds do cause and induce. We subsist diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, be the most insecure in the carcass; and it is not practically otherwise in the look; you whitethorn take sarza to give way the liver, sword to candid the spleen, flowers of sec for the lungs, castoreum for the intelligence; yet no response openeth the heart, precisely a true friend; to whom you may apply griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and any(prenominal) lieth upon the heart to curb it, in a kind of well-mannered shrift or confession. \n