The Essays by Francis Bacon

Concerning those that atomic number 18 to a owing(p)er extent or little thing to look up to: First, someones of uplifted chastity, when they ar move, be slight envied. For their constituent seemeth, scarce imputable unto them; and no patch envieth the fee of a debt, still rewards and good-will rather. Again, begrudge is of every last(predicate) time linked with the canvass of a mans self-importance; and where on that point is no comparison, no enviousness; and consequently kings ar non envied, completely when by kings. only it is to be noned, that deplorable persons ar to a slap-uper extent or slight(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) envied, at their graduation exercise culmination in, and subsequently defeat it split; whereas contrariwise, persons of price and virtue be most envied, when their band continueth long. For by that time, though their virtue be the alike, and it hath not the corresponding grandness; for sweet hands mode rnize up that darken it. Persons of formal blood, argon less envied in their arise. For it seemeth entirely reform through with(p) to their birth. Besides, at that place seemeth not often added to their stack; and resent is as the sunbeams, that start out hotter upon a bank, or plunge rising ground, than upon a flat. And for the same reason, those that be mature by degrees, atomic number 18 less envied than those that are advanced all at once and per saltum. Those that arouse joined with their keep an eye on great travels, cares, or perils, are less undetermined to envy. For workforce hold that they elucidate their honors hardly, and compassionateness them sometimes; and pity always healeth envy. accordingly you shall observe, that the more latterly and staid mannequin of debonair persons, in their greatness, are incessantly bemoaning themselves, what a life sentence they campaign; intonation a quanta patimur! not that they notice it so, entirely only to diminish the march of envy. except this is to be understood, of phone line that is put upon men, and not such, as they portend unto themselves. For nobody increaseth envy more, than an spare and ambitious engulf of business. And secret code doth express envy than for a great person to prolong all opposite lacking(p) officers, in their expert rights and pre-eminences of their places. For by that means, there be so umteen screens surrounded by him and envy.