The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Monday, February 22, 2021

Stoic Snippets 56


In the morning when you rise unwillingly, let this thought be present—I am rising to the work of a human being. 

Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? Or have I been made for this, to lie in the bedclothes and keep myself warm?

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.1

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