Fame and Prognoses
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Fame and Prognoses
To distribute this and that all right helps us to save time and spare assets. He that merely chops up things, may not know what to do next. Then mishmash can set in.Better be more concerned over what is about to happen or more or less likely to happen. Decent prognosis work can be an immense help in mastering life to one's maturing and revolving benefit. [Francis Bacon, Of Dispatch]
Fame looks like a relic of past rebelliousness. To the degree that plenty of fame is a mark of troubles one way or another, suppressing fame severely may not work. Suppression in itself is at any rate dubious.
If fame is held in check - i.e. carefully controlled - it can remain as long-lived asset. So, fame, and also very carefully checked and well controlled fame, might be called the daughter of plots and forewarner of troubles ahead too.
One should know when to stop, as that knowledge helps one to remain in control, and is a major boon for mankind. [Of Seditions]
When I was in France, I heard that the Queen Mother caused the King her husband's nativity to be calculated, under a false name. The astrologer gave a judgment, he should be killed in a duel. The queen laughed at it, thinking her husband to be above challenges and duels. But he was slain on a course at tilt [a contest on horseback in which two combatants charging with lances or similar weapons try to unhorse each other]. The splinters of the staff of Montgomery went in at his beaver [helmet visor protecting the lower part of the face]. [Of Prophecies, abstracted]
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