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On Weakness and Old Age He lifted his eyes and said, smiling: "The skilled doctor strikes his hands together on beholding a rival prostrate like a potsherd. A gentleman is engaged in adorning his hall with paintings whilst the very foundation of the house is ruined. An aged man was lamenting in his last agony whilst his old spouse was rubbing him with sandal. When the equilibrium of the constitution is destroyed, neither incantations nor medicines are of any avail."