When thou risest from sleep with reluctance, remember that it is according to thy constitution and according to human nature to perform social acts, but sleeping is common also to irrational animals.
In his personal reflections, Marcus Aurelius reminds himself to overcome morning reluctance by recalling the human duty to engage in social action.
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But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.
But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.
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