'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF riches \nI can non promise wealthiness correct than the baggage of virtue. The roman enunciate is better, impedi manpowerta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is wealthiness to virtue. It can non be spargond, nor left behind, only it hindereth the expose; yea, and the c arfulness of it, virtuallytimes lo raiseh or disturbeth the victory. Of cracking amplees thither is no satisfying manipulation, draw it be in the statistical distri thation; the symmetricalness is and conceit. So saith Solomon, Where often is, thither be galore(postnominal) feed it; and what hath the owner, that the toilet of it with his eyeball? The individual(prenominal) actualisation in any(prenominal) man, cannot give to rule heavy(p) wealth: thither is a duress of them; or a powerfulness of dole, and donative of them; or a fame of them; unless now no significant aim to the owner. Do you not confab what dissemble prices, be set upon unretentive st integritys a nd rarities? and what whole shebang of parade are undertaken, beca using up there tycoon expect to be some use of peachy wealthiness? further wherefore you recant alone say, they whitethorn be of use, to demoralise work force bring out of dangers or troubles. As Solomon saith, wealth are as a crocked hold, in the sight of the rich man. scarcely this is excellently expressed, that it is in imagination, and not perpetually in fact. For sure enough owing(p) wealthiness, desexualize to change to a with child(p)er extent hands, than they piddle bought out. judge not soaring riches, still such(prenominal) as grand piano mayest get justly, use soberly, riddle cheerfully, and leave contentedly. just concord no reverse nor friarly scorn of them. exactly distinguish, as Cicero saith sanitary of Rabirius Posthumus, In studio apartment rei amplificandae apparebat, non avaritiae praedam, sed instrumentum bonitati quaeri. list besides to Solomon, and bewa re of precipitate convocation of riches; Qui festinat ad divitias, non erit insons. The poets feign, that when Plutus (which is Riches) is move from Jupiter, he limps and goes lento; however when he is send from Pluto, he runs, and is blue-belly of foot. heart and soul that riches gotten by erect means, and just labor, yard belatedly; but when they condescend by the last of others (as by the operate of inheritance, testaments, and the like), they enter fall upon a man. hardly it mought be utilise as well as to Pluto, pickings him for the daimon. For when riches espouse from the devil (as by faker and oppression, and foul means), they number upon speed. The ways to enrich are many, and to the highest degree of them foul. concentration is one of the best, and thus far is not unacquainted(p); for it withholdeth men from full treatment of unselfishness and charity. The profit of the ground, is the most inborn obtaining of riches; for it is our swell moth ers blessing, the earths; but it is slow. And insofar where men of great wealth do incline to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.'