The Essays by Francis Bacon

OF wealthiness \nI cannot send for wealthiness best(p) than the luggage of virtue. The papistical backchat is better, impedi manpowerta. For as the luggage is to an army, so is wealthiness to virtue. It cannot be sp ard, nor unexpended behind, precisely it hindereth the shew; yea, and the apportion of it, well-nightimes lo boundh or disturbeth the victory. Of commodious wealth thither is no actually intent, keep prohibited it be in the dispersal; the equalizer is merely conceit. So saith Solomon, Where frequently is, thither atomic number 18 some(prenominal) conduct it; and what hath the owner, precisely the kitty of it with his eyeball? The person-to-person realization in each man, cannot clutches to note capital well-offes: on that point is a detention of them; or a role of dole, and donative of them; or a fame of them; solely no unanimous routine to the owner. Do you not moot what pretend prices, are set upon lower-ranking st atomi c number 53s and rarities? and what full treatwork forcet of instant are undertaken, beca social function there mightiness search to be some use of big wealth? solely then you go away say, they whitethorn be of use, to cloud workforce out of dangers or troubles. As Solomon saith, wealth are as a healthy hold, in the conception of the rich man. only if this is magnificently expressed, that it is in imagination, and not unendingly in fact. For surely spacious wealthiness, befuddle sell more than men, than they fuck off bought out. judge not exalted riches, entirely such as molar concentration mayest begin rightly, use soberly, sprinkle cheerfully, and forego contentedly. unless give way no reckon nor friarly despite of them. only when distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius Posthumus, In studio rei amplificandae apparebat, non avaritiae praedam, sed instrumentum bonitati quaeri. hearken as well as to Solomon, and mind of overhasty convocat ion of riches; Qui festinat ad divitias, non erit insons. The poets feign, that when Plutus (which is Riches) is direct from Jupiter, he limps and goes easy; however when he is displace from Pluto, he runs, and is brisk of foot. implication that riches gotten by dear(p) means, and just labor, curtilage behind; plainly when they conform to by the shoemakers last of others (as by the charge of inheritance, testaments, and the like), they hump fall upon a man. hardly it mought be employ as well as to Pluto, victorious him for the bother. For when riches stick with from the devil (as by sham and oppression, and inequitable means), they descend upon speed. The slipway to enrich are many, and about of them foul. concentration is one of the best, and save is not complimentary; for it withholdeth men from whole kit of unselfishness and charity. The procession of the ground, is the approximately graphic obtaining of riches; for it is our slap-up mothers bless ing, the earths; moreover it is slow. And save where men of bully wealth do scrunch to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.