Bacon's article on friendship and adversity
On Friendship (Bacon) "Only saints and animals can enjoy themselves in loneliness." -This sentence expresses the view that it is right or wrong. No matter who appears, this tendency to hate and exclude society is a manifestation of animal nature, and there is nothing sacred. Unless he lives alone, not to enjoy the happiness brought by loneliness, but out of the pursuit of more advanced communication. In some pagans, such pursuit is just an empty name, such as Epimonde in Canada, Numo in Rome, Epidoko in Sicily and Apollo in Nata. Only a few ancient hermits and holy priests can let us see the existence of such pursuit. People seldom understand what loneliness is and where it exists. In the bustling crowd, without your company, there is no love: eyes meet, faces seem to be copied from the images of art exhibition halls, as cold as ice; What you hear, what you hear, is no different from the tinkling of cymbals There is a Latin proverb that expresses a similar meaning: the city is a wilderness. This is because living in a big city, people who can be friends are scattered in the streets, and few people live next door to you. Moreover, pure and desolate loneliness is the longing for true friends-without friends, the world is a wilderness, empty and lonely. Nature is doomed that some people will never have friendship, which is also a kind of loneliness; But this kind of loneliness is the same as that of wild animals, and has nothing to do with human nature. People have joys and sorrows. The importance of friendship lies in that it can dilute and relieve our depressed emotions. Diseases caused by obstruction are particularly harmful to our bodies, far exceeding the ideological occlusion. Sasa (drug name) can clear liver, iron can clear spleen, sulfur can clear lung, and Katelu (drug name) can clear brain. Only friends can make people open their hearts, nothing else. You will share your sadness, fear, doubt, joy, hope and advice with him in a good mood. Friendship For the speaker of this sentence, besides this sentence, it is difficult for him to put more truth together than flowery words, because people who like to be alone are either beasts or gods. Because it is true, anyone's natural and secret hatred and disgust for society has some kind of barbaric beast; But this is the most untrue, it should have any character, sacred nature; Unless it is not out of the pleasure of being alone, but out of a kind of love and desire, it retreats for a higher level of conversation, as found in some pagans; Epimenides in Canada, Nouma in Rome, empedocles in Sicily, and Apollonius in Tanner; And the true, ancient hermit and the holy father of the church in diving. But few people realize what loneliness is and how far it is. Because the crowd is not a company; The face is just a picture of a gallery; Conversation is just a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Latin aphorism accords with it: great citizen, great loneliness; Because in big cities, friends are scattered; So in most cases, this friendship does not exist in fewer communities. But we can further and truly affirm that the lack of true friends is a pure and tragic loneliness; Without it, the world is just a wilderness; Even in this sense of loneliness, no one is fit for friendship within the framework of his nature and emotions. He comes from wild animals, not from humans. One of the main achievements of friendship is to relax and release the inner enrichment and expansion, which is caused and induced by various passions. We know that the cessation of disease, and suffocation, is the most dangerous body; There is not much else in my mind; You can open the liver with Salsa, the spleen with steel, the lungs with sulfur flowers, and the brain with castoreum. But no receipt can open your heart, only a true friend; You can pour out your sadness, happiness, fear, hope, doubt, advice, and anything that is pressed in your heart to them in a folk way of repentance or repentance.