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Aurelius, Meditations 8.11: When thou art hard to be stirred up and awaked out of thy sleep, admonish thy...
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When thou art hard to be stirred up and awaked out of thy sleep, admonish thyself and call to mind, that, to perform actions tending to the common good is that which thine own proper constitution, and that which the nature of man do require. But to sleep, is common to unreasonable creatures also. And what more proper and natural, yea what more kind and pleasing, than that which is according to nature?
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_08_xi
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