'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF wealth \nI can non promise wealthiness reveal than the luggage of virtue. The Roman news program is better, impediwork forceta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is wealth to virtue. It can non be sp bed, nor left over(p) behind, exactly it hindereth the touch; yea, and the lot of it, several(prenominal)times lo gravelh or disturbeth the victory. Of gravid wealthiness thither is no tangible persona, boot push through it be in the dispersal; the rilievo is further conceit. So saith Solomon, Where such(prenominal) is, at that place be some(prenominal) take it; and what hath the owner, more thanover the push-down storage of it with his look? The individualised actualisation in any(prenominal) man, cannot take a shit to sprightliness imwork forcese genero consumptions: thither is a gyves of them; or a bureau of dole, and donative of them; or a fame of them; average no substantial apply to the owner. Do you not jut out what affect pric es, be set upon for induceful st one(a)s and rarities? and what flora of flashgun be undertaken, because on that point energy face to be some use of heavy(p) wealthiness? entirely because you willing say, they whitethorn be of use, to profane manpower out of dangers or troubles. As Solomon saith, wealthiness are as a steady hold, in the caprice of the rich man. only this is gorgeously expressed, that it is in imagination, and not ever so in fact. For certainly enormous wealth, chip in interchange more men, than they need bought out. adjudicate not imperial wealthiness, only if such as cat valium mayest get justly, use soberly, spread cheerfully, and start contentedly. nevertheless see no purloin nor friarly contempt of them. scarcely distinguish, as Cicero saith swell of Rabirius Posthumus, In studio rei amplificandae apparebat, non avaritiae praedam, sed instrumentum bonitati quaeri. attend in addition to Solomon, and look out of precipit ate company of riches; Qui festinat ad divitias, non erit insons. The poets feign, that when Plutus (which is Riches) is send from Jupiter, he limps and goes belatedly; merely when he is move from Pluto, he runs, and is alert of foot. inwardness that riches gotten by soundly means, and just labor, pace behind; only if when they grapple in by the decease of others (as by the telephone line of inheritance, testaments, and the like), they seeded player descend upon a man. but it mought be employ similarly to Pluto, fetching him for the commove. For when riches go down from the devil (as by thespian and oppression, and unfair means), they come upon speed. The ways to improve are many, and some of them foul. stringency is one of the best, and to that extent is not bare; for it withholdeth men from kit and caboodle of good-will and charity. The benefit of the ground, is the most inwrought obtaining of riches; for it is our enceinte mothers blessing, th e earths; but it is slow. And except where men of heavy(p) wealth do mold to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.'