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Card #c203IR // #c203Verbatim excerpt
In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself presently, it is to go about a man's work that I am stirred up.

— Source: Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)

[Use when]

When the snooze button is winning the argument.

[Why it matters]

Duty reframed as nature: you were made for the work, not the warm bed.

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