申論題

1. Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor, wrote the following words to encourage himself to get up in the early morning. Nowadays, many students find it difficult to get up for 8 o’clock classes in the morning. Write an essay explaining to them, in your opinion, why they should get up and go to 8-o’clock classes.

When, in the early morning, you are reluctant to get up, have this thought in mind: “I rise to do a man’s
work. Am I still resentful as I go to do the task for which I was born and for the sake of which I was brought into this world? Was I made to warm myself under the blankets?” “But this is more pleasant?” Were you born for pleasure, to feel things, and not to do them? Do you not see plants, sparrows, ants, spiders and bees perform their proper task…. Yet you refuse to perform man’s task and you do not hasten to do what your nature demands. “But one must also rest.” Certainly, I agree. Nature, however, has set a limit to rest…. You do not love yourself. If you did, you would certainly love your own nature and its purpose.