This essay is an excellent example of Bacon's tendency to dilute hight ideals with expediency and a utilitarain approach to life. When Bacon says that a man, who pardons his enemies, reveals a noble heart, he certainly aims at a high ideal. But he dilutes this hight ideal by justifying a revenge that is taken fir a wrong for which there is no legal remedy. He show his worldly wisdom when he cautions a man wishing to take revenge by saying that the revenge should be such as there is no law to punish.