Echoes through time: Rising for the work of man

“At day’s first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that “I am rising for the work of man”.

Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180), Meditations (Book 5)

“Portrait of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius”. The Walters Art Museum.

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