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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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