"<p>Leaving aside the many other benefits of old age: long experience, freedom from voluptuousness (a great benefit), forgetfulness, indifference, tranquility, the greatest "benefit", or at any rate one of the greatest, is that you no longer nothing for your corporeal person, knowing that soon it will be no more. Thus, for me it is very important to know that I will not hear praise, I will not know anything about the impressions that the written ones will produce. So I can only write before God, thinking that only before Him, the One who sent me here, my work is pleasant, it is good.</p>"