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Meditations VIII.12
When thou art loth to get up,9 call to mind that the due discharge of social duties is in accordance with thy constitution and in accordance with man’s nature, while even irrational animals share with us the faculty of sleep; but what is in accordance with the nature of the individual is more congenial, more closely akin to him, aye and more attractive.
- 9.See v. 1.