As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies" in the context of "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy by Rüdiger Safranski (trans. Ewald Osers)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.