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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

XI. When thou art hard to he 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.

]3ut 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?