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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Doc, it worked miracles, I feel so good, what was it?" "Sleep"

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Funny enough, we have an extant letter from one of Aurelius's teachers yelling at him (while he was Emperor no less) for going down to a nice beachside resort town and then spending the whole time working on affairs of state, including working by candlelight all night long. Some sleep would have done poor Marcus some good, one expects.