O thou that sleepest,

what is sleep?
Sleep resembles death.
Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise
that after death thou mayest retain a
resemblance to perfect life,
rather than during life make thyself
like the hapless dead
by sleeping?

LEONARDO DA VINCI from Being by S. H.

from CE

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