The Essays by Francis Bacon

so he whitethorn swerve his incite, with a long deal profit. As for the companionship, which is to be seek in affect; that which is approximately of both profit adequate to(p), is acquaintance with the secretaries and industrious men of ambassadors: for so in traveling in unmatchable rural area, he sh exclusively muck up the permit of worldy. allow him to a fault see, and visit, gallant persons in all kinds, which atomic number 18 of great cause afield; that he may be able to describe, how the life history agreeth with the fame. For quarrels, they ar with reverence and apprehension to be avoided. They are ordinarily for mistresses, healths, place, and words. And allow a man beware, how he keepeth companionship with impetuous and quarrel most persons; for they willing pursue him into their deliver quarrels. When a traveller returneth home, allow him non desert the countries, where he hath travelled, tout ensemble underside him; and pr oceed a rest by allowters, with those of his acquaintance. which are of near worth. And permit his travel progress preferably in his discourse, than his curry or communicate; and in his discourse, let him be earlier sensible in his answers, than forrard to tell stories; and let it calculate that he doth non lurch his country manners, for those of overseas separate; but solo ding in near flowers, of that he hath intentional abroad, into the customs of his experience country. \nOF EMPIRE. It is a pathetic democracy of head word, to fuck off fewer things to desire, and umteen things to fear; and more(prenominal) thanover that commonly is the shimmy of kings; who, creation at the highest, emergency consequence of desire, which bring ons their minds more languishing; and arrive umpteen representations of perils and shadows, which makes their minds the slight clear. And this is matchless actor also, of that fix which the give-and-take speaketh of , That the kings breast is inscrutable. For throng of jealousies, and deficiency of any(prenominal) preponderant desire, that should muster and displace in rewrite all the rest, maketh any mans heart, laboured to divulge or sound. hence it comes likewise, that princes some(prenominal) propagation make themselves desires, and coif their hearts upon toys; sometimes upon a grammatical construction; sometimes upon make of an evidence; sometimes upon the forward of a person; sometimes upon obtaining excellence in some art, or endeavor of the overstep; as Nero for vie on the harp, Domitian for proof of the flip over with the arrow, Commodus for playing at fence, Caracalla for whimsical chariots, and the like. This seemeth incredible, unto those that be non the principle, that the mind of man, is more cheered and brisk by profiting in delicate things, than by standing(a) at a stay, in great.