19. "Jucundum nihil est, nisi quod reficit varietas.” Nothing is pleasant, to which variety does not give a relish.

20. " Invidiam ferre, aut fortis, aut felix potest."

21.

22.

He may bear envy, who is either courageous or happy.

"In malis sperare bonum, nisi innocens, nemo potest."

None but a virtuous man can hope well in ill circumstances.

" In vindicando, criminosa est celeritas."

In taking revenge, the very haste we make is criminal.

23. " In calamitoso risus etiam injuria est."

When men are in calamity, if we do but laugh we offend.

24. "Improbe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum nau" fragium facit."

25.

He accuseth Neptune unjustly, who makes
shipwreck a second time.

" Multis minatur, qui uni facit injuriam."
He that injures one, threatens an hundred.

26. "Mora omnis ingrata est, sed facit sapientiam." All delay is ungrateful, but we are not wise without it.

27. "Mori est felicis antequam mortem invocet."

Happy he who dies ere he calls for death to take him away.

28. "Malus ubi bonum se simulat, tunc est pessimus." An ill man is always ill; but he is then worst of all, when he pretends to be a saint.

29.

" Magno cum periculo custoditur, quod multis " placet."

Lock and key will scarce keep that secure, which pleases every body.

30. "Male vivunt qui se semper victuros putant." They think ill, who think of living always.

31. " Male secum agit æger, medicum qui hæredem

" facit."

That sick man does ill for himself, who makes his physician his heir.

32. " Multos timere debet, quem multi timent."

He of whom many are afraid, ought himself to fear many.

33. " Nulla tam bona est fortuna, de qua nil possis " queri."

There is no fortune so good but it bates an

ace.

34. " Pars beneficii est, quod petitur si bene neges.” It is part of the gift, if you deny genteely what is asked of you.

35. "Timidus vocat se cautum, parcum sordidus.” The coward calls himself a wary man; and the miser says, he is frugal.

36.

"O vita! misero longa, felici brevis.”

O life! an age to him that is in misery; and to him that is happy, a moment.

A COLLECTION OF SENTENCES

OUT OF SOME OF THE

WRITINGS OF THE LORD BACON.*

1. It is a strange desire which men have, to seek power, and lose liberty.

2. Children increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death.

3. Round dealing is the honour of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like allay in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.

4. Death openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

5. Schism in the spiritual body of the Church is a greater scandal than a corruption in manners: as, in the natural body, a wound or solution of continuity is worse than a corrupt humour.

6. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

7. He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own wounds green.

8. Revengeful persons live and die like witches: their life is mischievous, and their end is unfortunate, * Baconiana, page 65.

9. It was an high speech of. Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics, that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things which belong to adversity are to be admired. 10. He that cannot see well, let him go softly. 11. If a man be thought secret, it inviteth discovery; as the more close air sucketh in the more open. 12. Keep your authority wholly from your children, not so your purse.

13. Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise: for the distance is altered; and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on, they think themselves go back.

14. That envy is most malignant which is like Cain's, who envied his brother, because his sacrifice was better accepted, when there was nobody but God to look on.

15. The lovers of great place are impatient of privateness, even in age, which requires the shadow : like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street door, though there they offer age to scorn.

16. In evil, the best condition is, not to will: the next, not to can.

17. In great place, ask counsel of both times: of the ancient time, what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest.

18. As in nature things move more violently to their place, and calmly in their place: so virtue in ambition is violent; in authority, settled and calm.

19. Boldness in civil business is like pronunciation in the Orator of Demosthenes: the first, second, and third thing.

20. Boldness is blind : wherefore it is ill in counsel, but good in execution. For in counsel it is good to see dangers; in execution, not to see them, except they be very great.

21. Without good-nature, man is but a better kind of vermin.

22. God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

23. The great atheists indeed are hypocrites, who are always handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end.

24. The master of superstition is the people. And in all superstition, wise men follow fools.

25. In removing superstitions, care would be had, that, as it fareth in ill purgings, the good be not taken away with the bad: which commonly is done when the people is the physician.

26. He that goeth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

27. It is a miserable state of mind, and yet it is commonly the case of kings, to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.

28. Depression of the nobility may make a king more absolute, but less safe.

29. All precepts concerning kings are, in effect, comprehended in these remembrances: remember thou art a man; remember thou art God's vicegerent: the one bridleth their power, and the other their will.