Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.
Tale of Genji
From *The Tale of Genji*, a stark and somewhat humorous observation on aging and its effects.
c. 1000-1012 CE
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