Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life.
老年被指责对感官的满足所带来的快乐和享受麻木不悟，如果它能减轻我们年轻时生活中最痛苦的痛苦，那真是一种最幸福、最神圣的效果。