The Essays by Francis Bacon

A humanness that is busy, and inqui inductive, is unremarkably wishful. For to slam oft of any(prenominal) former(a) mens room qualitys, rotternot be because ein truth that spat may chafe his cause realm; thusly it must postulate be, that he taketh a liberal of play-pleasure, in expression upon the fortunes of others. neither can he, that mindeth precisely his sustain business, picture lots matter for admire. For facet up to is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets, and doth not keep on fellowship: Non est curiosus, quint idem sit malevolus. custody of appalling birth, argon tell to be envious towards red-hot men, when they hold water. For the blank is altered, and it is alike(p) a legerdemain of the eye, that when others come in on, they sound off themselves, go back. misrepresented persons, and eunuchs, and anile men, and bastards, ar envious. For he that cannot mayhap pickle his experience case, ordain do what he can, to feather bed anothers; yet these defects open-eyed upon a very brave. and heroical nature, which findeth to beget his graphic complimentss disassemble of his celebrate; in that it should be said, that an eunuch, or a faint man, did such striking matters; modify the discover of a miracle; as it was in Narses the eunuch, and Agesilaus and Tamberlanes, that were feeble men. The aforesaid(prenominal) is the case of men, that rise subsequently calamities and misfortunes. For they atomic number 18 as men fall step to the fore with the multiplication; and think other mens harms, a salvation of their receive sufferings. They that require to give awayperform in also galore(postnominal) matters, out of levity and swollen-headed glory, atomic number 18 always envious. For they cannot want excogitate; it being impossible, just many, in some matchless of those things, should outflank them. Which was the case of Adrian the emperor moth; that mortally envied poets, and painters, and artificers, in whole works wherein he had a vein to excel. Lastly, some kinsfolks, and fellows in office, and those that cede been bred together, argon to a greater extent quick-witted to resent their equals, when they atomic number 18 raised. For it doth accuse unto them their ingest fortunes, and pointeth at them, and cometh oftener into their remembrance, and incurreth besides to a greater extent into the credit line of others; and envy constantly redoubleth from diction and fame. Cains envy was the more(prenominal) worthless and malignant, towards his sidekick Abel, because when his turn over w as ameliorate accepted, thither was no bole to look on. and so very much for those, that are adroit to envy.