Capitolo 68
dissertation is that that passages among two people that are familiarized
and intimate friends. On these occasions, a man gives, a loose to
every passion and every he/she thought that it is taller, it discovers his
the most greater part of retired opinions of people and things, test the beauty and
strength of his/her feelings, and it shows his/her whole soul to the
his/her friend's examination.
Tully was the first one who observed that friendship it improves the happiness
and it decreases uneasiness from the doubling of our joy and dividend of ours,
pain; a thought in that him hath is followed by all the essayists
on friendship that he/she writes from the his/her duration. Mr. Francis Bacon
you/he/she has excellently described the other advantages, or, as he calls them fruits,
of the friendship; and, there is indeed, anybody subject of the morality that
you/he/she has been handled better and more exhausted than this. Among the
a lot of excellent things that are been spoken of him, I will implore permission
citharas out some of a very ancient author whose book would be
considered by our modern intelligence one of the brightest lines of
morality that is existing, if it appeared under the name of a
Confucius, or of some Greek and famous philosopher; I mean the
the small apocryphal essay entitled her Wisdom of the Child of Sirach.
As excellently he has described the art to make friends a forcing
and amiable behaviour; and it placed down that precept that a slow
excellent author has delivered as his really, That we would have to have many of it
supporting, but the few friends. "Sweet language will multiply
friends; and a language equitable-oratory will increase kind regards.
Both in peace with many, nevertheless has but an adviser of a
thousand." With that prudence he warns us in the choice of
our friends! And with that hits of nature, I could almost say of
humour, he has described the behaviour of an untrustworthy and same-
I befriend party! "If you wouldests find a friend, you try him/it before,
and it is not hasty to accredit him/it: for of the man a friend is for his