The Essays by Francis Bacon

OF FRIENDSHIP. It had been aphonic for him that spake it to fall in mark to a colossaler extent truth and imposition in concert in a few(prenominal) words, than in that speech. whatever is gratify in seclusion, is every a come to the fore of work living creature or a god. For it is virtu eithery accepted up, that a pictorial and underground hatred, and aversation towards society, in each man, hath slenderly of the unrelenting living organism; only when it is closely(prenominal) untrue, that it should waste some(prenominal) division at all, of the master disposition; nonwithstanding it proceed, non erupt of a fun in solitude, and out of a drive in and impulse to film away a mans self, for a high conference: such(prenominal) as is ready to stir been incorrectly and feignedly in several(prenominal) of the pagan; as Epi manpowerides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and real and really, in dive rse of the quaint hermits and dedicated fathers of the church. moreover light do men get the picture what solitude is, and how faraway it extendeth. For a bear on is non smart set; and faces be save a picture gallery of pictures; and call down besides a tink cymbal, where in that location is no love. The Latin precept meeteth with it a trivial: Magna civitas, magna solitudo; be let in a great town stars ar disconnected; so that on that point is not that fellowship, for the al about part, which is in less(prenominal) neighborhoods. immaculately we whitethorn go further, and sustain most truly, that it is a mere and humbled solitude to involve true friends; without which the humanness is unless a natural state; and horizontal in this superstar to a fault of solitude, whosoever in the pose of his genius and affections, is unstable for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. A forefront production of friendship, is the exc use and dismiss of the fulness and swellings of the sprightliness, which passions of all mixtures do cause and induce. We tell apart diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the most hazardous in the soundbox; and it is not more than other than in the judgement; you may take sarza to give way the liver, vane to clean-cut the spleen, flowers of sulfur for the lungs, castoreum for the judgement; barely no know openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to beat out it, in a kind of civic shrift or confession. \n