Bacon Essays 26 (Seeming Wise)

Bacon Essays 26 (Seeming Wise)

Bonus: 

No cruelty for Spock.

Summary: Better to be kind of silly than overly formal. People are overly formal to disguise cluelessness.

Commentary:  This one was hard to read.

 

Bacon Essays 25 (Dispatch)

 Bacon Essays 25 (Dispatch)

Bonus: 

I saw charcuterie in the blender and laughed, but this is probably good.

Summary: Be speedy when you need to be, but don't rush around and mess stuff up. Use your time intentionally and wisely.

Commentary: 

 It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudities, 

Prestidigitate the crudites.

Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.

I think I like this better than "haste makes waste".

 

Bacon Essays 24 (Innovations)

Bacon Essays 24 (Innovations)

Bonus:

I don't know if I like EPCOT, but I at least hate it less than the rest of Disney.

Summary: The first versions of something aren't perfect, but they are impressive.

Commentary: I hate first mover advantage. Damn you, League of Legends!

Bacon Essays 23 (Wisdom For A Man's Self)

 Bacon Essays 23 (Wisdom For A Man's Self)

Bonus: 

I picked this solely based on the description.

Summary: Don't just do things for yourself.

Commentary: I don't even necessarily disagree with this one, but about a quarter of it is:

 It is a poor centre of a man's actions, himself. It is right earth. For that only stands fast upon his own centre; whereas all things, that have affinity with the heavens, move upon the centre of another, which they benefit.

and 

Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house, somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.  

Feels like he should actually argue his point a bit more.

Bacon Essays 22 (Cunning)

 Bacon Essays 22 (Cunning)

Bonus:

Brutal/Cunning/Brutal

Summary: Being patient is a big part of being cunning. Be wise and friendly, and you can convince people just as well as being slimy.

Commentary: 

WE TAKE cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. 

The 40K memes are starting early.

for many are perfect in men's humors, that are not greatly capable of the real part of business; which is the constitution of one that hath studied men, more than books. 

Don't just sit here reading old books. Actually go talk to people.

 you entertain and amuse the party, with whom you deal, with some other discourse; that he be not too much awake to make objections.

 Negotiate your opponent into a food coma.

the turning of the cat in the pan

Bacon uses the weirdest idioms. 

 

 

Bacon Essays 21 (Delays)

 Bacon Essays 21 (Delays)

Bonus: 

One of these puppets has strong feelings about delays.

Summary: Don't rush things, but remember they'll take longer than you think.

Commentary:  

 For occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle

A common verse indeed. 

 

Bacon Essays 20 (Counsel)

Bacon Essays 20 (Counsel)

Bonus: 

What happens if you don't take advice.

Summary: There's nothing wrong with asking for and taking advice.

Commentary:

God himself is not without, but hath made it one of the great names of his blessed Son: The Counsellor.

God created Jesus to give him advice (and also die so he could forgive humanity). The insurance fraud just gets weirder and more complicated. 

Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos.

"The greatest virtue of a ruler is to know his own people." Actually really good advice.