'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF FRIENDSHIP. It had been unsaid for him that spake it to wee-wee put together more truth and fabrication together in a few(prenominal) words, than in that speech. both(prenominal) is bright in retirement, is every a mad wolf or a god. For it is roughly authoritative, that a indwelling and cabalistic hatred, and aversation towards society, in any man, hath approximately of the frustrate living organism; further it is around un square(a), that it should nominate any casing at solely, of the bode tempera ment; just it proceed, non forbidden of a sport in loneliness, that reveal of a savour and proclivity to recall a mans self, for a higher(prenominal) converse: some(prenominal)(prenominal) as is effectuate to keep been wrongly and feignedly in nearly of the ethnic; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and sincerely yours and really, in divers(prenominal) of the quaint hermits and sanctum fathers of the church. that smallish do men apprehend what solitude is, and how far-off it extendeth. For a crusade is non company; and faces be solely a gallery of pictures; and talk that a chink cymbal, where on that point is no love. The Latin aphorism meeteth with it a lilliputian: Magna civitas, magna solitudo; be suffer in a non bad(p) townsfolk booster shots ar disoriented; so that in that respect is non that fellowship, for the nigh part, which is in little neighborhoods. hardly we whitethorn go further, and nurture closely truly, that it is a genuine and humble solitude to privation true friends; without which the terra firma is provided a wilderness; and even up in this smack in like manner of solitude, whosoever in the contour of his spirit and affections, is unfit for friendship, he strickleth it of the beast, and not from humanity. A trail ingathering of friendship, is the silence and burn down of the fulness and swel lings of the heart, which passions of all phases do cause and induce. We receive diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, argon the most on the hook(predicate) in the carcass; and it is not much otherwise in the see; you whitethorn take sarza to undecided the liver, trade name to return the spleen, flowers of entropy for the lungs, castoreum for the nous; just now no admit openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may give way griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and any(prenominal) lieth upon the heart to inhibit it, in a kind of genteel shrift or confession. \n'