The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Stoic Snippets 152


When you rise from sleep with reluctance, remember that it is according to your constitution and according to human nature to perform social acts, but sleeping is common also to irrational animals. 

But that which is according to each individual's nature is also more peculiarly its own, and more suitable to its nature, and indeed also more agreeable. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.12 

IMAGE: John Everett Millais, Waking (1865)



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