![]() ![]() It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even. Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. Sancho: "… but this I very well know, that while I am asleep, I feel neither hope nor despair I am free from pain and insensible of glory. (Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha, Segunda Parte, CapÃtulo LXVIII). Sola una cosa tiene mala el sueño según he oÃdo decir, y es que se parece a la muerte, pues de un dormido a un muerto hay muy poca diferencia." Sancho: "…sÃ"lo entiendo que en tanto que duermo, ni tengo temor, ni esperanza, ni trabajo, ni gloria y bien haya el que inventÃ" el sueño, capa que cubre todos los humanos pensamientos, manjar que quita la hambre, agua que ahuyenta la sed, fuego que calienta el frÃo, frÃo que templa el ardor, y, finalmente, moneda general con que todas las cosas se compran, balanza y peso que iguala al pastor con el rey y al simple con el discreto. On my grave, as now my bed." (Sir Thomas Browne 1605-82, Religio Medici II.12). "O Sleep, rest of all things, mildest of the gods, balm of the soul …" ( Iris  1 to Hypnos. ![]() "Divine Sleep, god who knows no pain, Sleep, stranger to anguish, come in favor to us, come happy, and giving happiness, great King! … come with power to heal!" (Sailors of Neoptolemus' crew. "What presumption of man, can match your power, Zeus, who are no subject to Sleep or Time or Age, living forever in bright Olympus?" (Theban Elders. "… almighty Sleep releases the fettered sleeper, and does not hold him in a perpetual grasp." ( Ajax  1. "… whenever in his imagination a man sees delights, straightaway the vision, slipping through his arms, is gone, winging its flight along the paths of Sleep." (Argive Elders. ![]()
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