Translations
Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
Sickness is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless itself pleases.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses.George Long (1890)
Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to the will, unless the will consent.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)