"Early in the morning, when you are finding it hard to wake up, hold this thought in your
mind: ‘I am getting up to do the work of a human being. Do I still resent it, if I am
going out to do what I was born for and for which I was brought into the world? Or
was I framed for this, to lie under the bedclothes and keep myself warm?’ ‘But this is
more pleasant’. So were you born for pleasure: in general were you born for feeling or
for affection? Don’t you see the plants, the little sparrows, the ants, the spiders, the
bees doing their own work, and playing their part in making up an ordered world. And
then are you unwilling to do the work of a human being? Won’t you run to do what is
in line with your nature?"
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.1
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