“...Love of mankind, no doubt, made Cicero praise old age; however, I don’t think that his treatise really consoled the elders: it is easy for wit to captivate the mind, but it is difficult to defeat the natural feeling in the soul. Is it possible to praise illness? and old age is her sister. Let's stop deceiving ourselves and others; Let's stop proving that all the actions of Nature and all its phenomena are beneficial for us - in general terms, perhaps; but since it is known only to God, then man cannot reason about things in this regard...” The work is given in the pre-reform alphabet.