1 6 Bacon 



was a state without paradoxes. For we see what Titus 

 Livius saith in his introduction: Caterum aut me amor 

 negotii suscepti fallit, aut nulla unquam respublica nee major, 

 nee sanctior, nee bonis exemplis ditior fuit ; nee in quam tarn 

 serce avaritia luxuriaque immigraverint ; nee ubi tantus ac 

 tarn diu paupertati ac parsimonies honus fuerit. 1 We see 

 likewise, after that the state of Rome was not itself, but did 

 degenerate, how that person that took upon him to be coun 

 sellor to Julius Caesar after his victory where to begin his 

 restoration of the state, maketh it of all points the most 

 summary to take away the estimation of wealth: Verum 

 hczc, et omnia mala pariter cum honor e pecunicz desinent ; si 

 neque magistratus, neque alia vulgo cupienda, venalia erunt? 

 To conclude this point, as it was truly said, that Ruborest- 

 virtutis color, though sometime it come from vice ; 3 so it may 

 be fitly said that Paupertas est virtutisfortuna, though some 

 time it may proceed from misgovernment and accident. 

 Surely Salomon hath pronounced it both in censure, Qui 

 festinat ad divitias non erit insons ; 4 and in precept, Buy the 

 truth, and sell it not ; and so of wisdom and knowledge ; 5 

 judging that means were to be spent upon Learning, and 

 not Learning to be applied to means. 



(/:?) And as for the privateness, or obscureness (as it may 



taxed with sensuality and sloth, in comparison [with] and 

 to the disadvantage of a civil life, for safety, liberty, plea 

 sure, and dignity, or at least freedom from indignity, as no 

 man handleth it but handleth it well; such a consonancy 

 it hath to men s conceits in the expressing, and to men s 

 consents in the allowing. This only I will add, that learned 

 men forgotten in states and not living in the eyes of men, are 

 like the images of Cassius and Brutus in the funeral of Junia : 

 of which not being represented, as many others were, 

 Tacitus saith, Eo ipso pr&fulgebant, quod non visebantur. 6 



(y)/And for meaiuiss_iif^mployinent, that which is most 

 traduced to contempt is that the government of youth is 

 commonly allotted to them; which age, because it is the 

 age of least authority, it is transferred to the disesteeming 



1 Livii Praf. 2 Epist. i. ad C. Cces. de Rep. ord. 



3 Diog. Cyn. ap. Lcert. vi. 54. 4 Prov. xxviii. 22. 



Prov. xxiii. 23. 6 Tac. Ann. iii. 76, ad fin. 



