"Now you must cast aside your laziness," my master said,

"for he who rests on down or under covers cannot come to fame;

and he who spends his life without renown leaves such a vestige of himself on earth

Therefore, get up; defeat your breathlessness

with spirit that can win all battles if the body's heaviness does not deter it.

A longer ladder still is to be climbed;

it's not enough to have left them behind;

if you have understood, now profit from it."

- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise.