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Meditations · Book VIII · 12
Book VIII · 12

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. 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 VIII.12. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.