Bacon's Essays 15 (Of Sedition and Troubles)
Bonus:
I don't have a joke for this.
Summary: Latin. People won't rebel if you keep them happy (and avoid big changes and scandal).
Commentary:
The real trouble is settling into a nice set of ~1 page essays, and then slapping down this 4 pager for me on a Friday night.
Also, so much Latin. Borderline unreadable without translating all of it before you even start (and I'm relying on machine translation).
Bonus:
And the Turks.
Summary: Nobility is good.
Commentary:
A monarchy, where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute tyranny; as that of the Turks.
It does sometimes seem like it'd be nice if people were raised to rule graciously were in charge.
Bacon's Essays 13 (Goodness and Goodness of Nature)
Bonus:
Be goodness.
Summary: Be nice.
Commentary: That's about it.
Bonus:
Summary: Be bold (like wikipedia)
Commentary:
Question was asked of Demosthenes, what was the chief part of an orator? he answered, action; what next? action; what next again? action.
This is a fucking meme.
Bacon's Essay 11 (Of Great Place)
Bonus:
Summary: People with lots of ambition are busy. Work on small things and your life will be better.
Commentary: I am sleepy tonight.
So much Latin.
Bonus:
Kind of a a gimmie.
Summary: Love makes you crazy.
Commentary:
For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.
Can you be wise about other things?
perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures
That's an epigraph right there.
Bonus:
Commentary:
an ejaculation or irradiation of the eye
Like the end of a bad date.
Non est curiosus, quin idem sit malevolus.
There is no curious person who is not malevolent! Then why am I reading all this stuff?
Deformed persons, and eunuchs, and old men, and bastards, are envious.
Next time someone is envious of me, I'm going to ask if they're deformed, a eunuch, old, or just a bastard.
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