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Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight, I'll be reading Book Two and Three from Meditations by Marcus Soilius.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Number One

Remember how long thou hast already put off these things and how often a certain day and hour as it were, having been set unto thee by the gods.

Thou hast neglected it. It is high time for thee to understand the true nature both of the world, whereof thou art a part,

and of that lord and governor of the world, from whom as a channel from the spring thou thyself dist flow,

and that there is but a certain limit of time appointed unto thee, which if thou shalt not make use of to calm and delay the many distempers of thyself,

it will pass away and thou with it and never after return.

Number Two

Let it be thy earnest and incessant care as a Roman and a man to perform whatsoever it is that thou art about,

with true and unfaind gravity, natural affection, freedom and justice, and as for all other cares and imaginations,

how thou mayest ease thy mind of them, which thou shalt do if thou shalt go about to free action as thy last action,

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