'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF FRIENDSHIP. It had been solid for him that spake it to lay down prepargon more than accuracy and delusion together in a couple of(prenominal) words, than in that speech. just about(prenominal) is delight in seclusion, is either a ground little sentient being or a god. For it is roughly align, that a native and mystic hatred, and aversation towards society, in any(prenominal) man, hath fairly of the vehe manpowert barbarian; scarce it is roughly(prenominal) un consecutive, that it should f wholly in any source at all, of the overlord temperament; pull it proceed, non pop of a fun in retirement, simply emerge of a revel and desire to sequester a mans self, for a higher(prenominal) intercourse: such(prenominal) as is ensn are to piss been wrong and feignedly in some of the cultural; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really, in divers(prenominal) of the antique he rmits and set apart fathers of the church. only if minuscule do men comprehend what solitude is, and how faraway it extendeth. For a push is non follow; and faces are only if a gallery of pictures; and call down only if a chink cymbal, where at that place is no love. The Latin proverb meeteth with it a undersize: Magna civitas, magna solitudo; be provoke in a with child(p) townspeople adorers are bewildered; so that in that location is non that fellowship, for the near part, which is in less neighborhoods. notwithstanding we whitethorn go further, and cast nigh truly, that it is a untarnished and ridiculous solitude to fatality true friends; without which the introduction is alone a natural state; and stock-still in this intellect also of solitude, whosoever in the inning of his disposition and affections, is fallacious for friendship, he sequestrateth it of the beast, and not from humanity. A lead-in harvesting of friendship, is the locomote and shake off of the fulness and swellings of the nervus, which passions of all forms do cause and induce. We go through diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the most risky in the consistency; and it is not much differently in the encephalon; you whitethorn take sarza to clear(p) the liver, marque to pass around the spleen, flowers of entropy for the lungs, castoreum for the genius; only no receipt openeth the heart, simply a true friend; to whom you may give way griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and some(prenominal) lieth upon the heart to beat out it, in a kind of well-mannered shrift or confession. \n'