Marcus Aurelius Quote

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.


Matthew Arnold Introduces the Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Born in 121, B.C., Died in 80 B.C. (ed. 1910)


When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and ...

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and ...

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and ...

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and ...