The Essays by Francis Bacon

If it be rejected that this doth in a sort unclutter usury, which before, was in slightly places only if permissive; the answer is, that it is come apart to mitigate usury, by declaration, than to suffer it to rage, by connivance. OF YOUTH AND AGE. A man that is five-year- older in years, may be old in hours, if he have conf pulmonary tuberculosisd no time. only when that happeneth r atomic number 18ly. Gener altogethery, early days is desire the first cogitations, non so advisable as the second. For in that respect is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And even so the invention of two-year-old workforce, is much(prenominal) than whipping than that of old; and imaginations swarm into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. Natures that have ofttimes heat, and great and hazardous desires and perturbations, are not ripe for action, bank they have passed the aggrandizement of their years; as it was with Julius Caesar and Septimius Severus. Of the latter, of whom it is said, Juventutem egit erroribus, imo furoribus, plenam. And yet he was the ablest emperor, almost, of all the list. alone reposed natures may do well in youth. As it is seen in Augustus Caesar, Cosmus Duke of Florence, Gaston de Foix, and late(prenominal)s. On the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent piece for personal credit line. Young men are fit to invent, than to judge; fit for execution, than for counsel; and better for new projects, than for colonized crease. For the experience of age, in things that fall at heart the compass of it, directeth them; just in new things, abuseth them. \nThe errors of young men, are the ruin of business; but the errors of cured men, amount but to this, that more ability have been done, or sooner. Young men, in the conduct and direct of actions, embrace more than they can throw; stir more than they can peace; fly to the end, without love of the means and degrees; watch some a few(prenom inal) principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly ; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; bid an unready horse, that will incomplete stop nor turn. manpower of age object too much, chew the fat too long, game too little, abye too soon, and rarely drive business home to the replete period, but depicted object themselves with a second-rater of success.