Bacon's Essay 11 (Of Great Place)

 Bacon's Essay 11 (Of Great Place)

Bonus: 

Classic Adjacent

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.

Bacon's Essays 10 (Love)

 Bacon's Essays 10 (Love)

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.

 

 

Bacon's Essays 9 (Envy)

Bacon's Essays 9 (Envy)

Bonus: 

Envy

Summary: We envy people who have things that we want. (That's almost the definition...

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.

 

 

 

 

Bacon's Essays 8 (Marriage And Single Life)

Bacon's Essays 8 (Marriage And Single Life)

Bonus: 

Twue wuv

Summary: Marriage is a lot of work, so you'll have less time for MAD GENIUS, but also be less of an asshole (hopefully).

Commentary: 

HE THAT hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. 

BACON HATES YOUR FAMILY!

(Not really, has good things to say later. I just like the forcefulness of the opener.)

 

Bacon's Essays 7 (Of Parents And Children)

Bacon's Essays 7 (Of Parents And Children)

Bonus: 

As Solomon said...

Summary: If you're gonna have kids, make sure you guide them well. If you don't have kids, your work will be your legacy.

Commentary:  

 And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men 

I want to see how far back people have been saying this now. 

optimum elige, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo. "Choose what is best; custom will make it pleasant and easy"

That is my goal with doing this every night. 

Bacon's Essays 6 (Simulation And Dissimulation)

 Bacon's Essays 6 (Simulation And Dissimulation)

Bonus:

Sweet album art

Summary: When you hide yourself, you weaken yourself.

Commentary: 

I didn't think of dissimulation in this context before, but it appears aligned with the dictionary definition. (Hiding under a false appearance.) I always think of it as just not engaging with the situation.

There be three degrees of this hiding and veiling of a man's self. The first, closeness, reservation, and secrecy; when a man leaveth himself without observation, or without hold to be taken, what he is. The second, dissimulation, in the negative; when a man lets fall signs and arguments, that he is not, that he is. And the third, simulation, in the affirmative; when a man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not.

I think that first is closer to how we use it today.

The third and greatest is, that it depriveth a man of one of the most principal instruments for action; which is trust and belief. The best composition and temperature, is to have openness in fame and opinion; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.

Truth.  

 

 

 

 

Bacon's Essays 5 (Adversity)

 Bacon's Essays 5 (Adversity)

Bonus: 

Sure, I dunno, getting bulled by Powerful Rangers is adversity.

Summary: Learn to admire surviving adversity.

Commentary: 

The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue

Someone call Ben Franklin.