sation; it trembles at every breath; it lets blood for every
inflammation; and this, without ever enjoying a day of health or
pleasure, drags out its existence to a doting and debilitated old
age.” That Macaulay here is consciously paraphrasing Plato is
apparent from his unfair use of the Platonic passage in his essay on
Bacon. Cf. further Euripides Supp. 1109-1113; Seneca on early medicine,
Epistles xv. 3 (95) 14 ff., overdoes both Spencer and Macaulay. Cf. Rousseau,
Emile, Book I.: “Je ne sais point apprendre
a vivre a qui ne songe qu'a s'empecher de mourir;” La
Rochefoucauld (Max. 282): “C'est une ennuyeuse
maladie que de conserver sa sante par un trop grand
regime.”” “