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 Do not enjoy sleeping; wake up, sit up, get up soon at midnight, go kneeling with elbows on knees, then standup, incline and bow with reverence, invoke, call the Lord out loud, our Lord, who is night and wind, because the pleasure of hearing you at night then will have mercy on you, then will be what you deserve." Sixth Book, Chapter VIII of the Florentine Codex.

As can be seen in this excerpt, the mother emphasizes that life is not only pleasure and joy. On the contrary, life is faced as a challenge of great effort and suffering and hard work, which has some bonuses, "my child in this world, is the place of weeping and afflictions, and discontent, where there is cold and unpleasant air and great heat from the Sun that afflicts us, and is a place of hunger and thirst: this is a great truth and from experience we know." Florentine Codex.