Da Vinci Requiem: VI. O You Who Are Asleep
Anonymous, Leonardo da Vinci
"O you who are asleep, what thing is sleep?
Sleep resembles death
Ah, why then do you not work in such a way that after death you might resemble yet a perfect life, when, during life, you are in sleep so like the hapless dead?
What is it that is much desired by men, but which they know not while possessing? It is sleep
Since a well-spent day makes you happy to sleep, so a well-used life makes you happy to die"