Full Idea
I am training and sharpening my appetite for those pleasures that are left. ...We must cling tooth and claw to the use of the pleasures of this life which the advancing years, one after another, rip from our grasp.
Gist of Idea
We must fight fiercely to hang on to the few pleasures which survive into old age
Source
Michel de Montaigne (I.39 On Solitude [1580], p.276)
Book Reference
Montaigne,Michel de: 'The Complete Essays', ed/tr. Screech,M.A. [Penguin 1987], p.276
A Reaction
That may be one of the most inspiring ideas I have read about pleasure.