{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_x: It is the part of a man end", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c4449448df1e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_vi: Every particular nature hath content, when in its own proper course it speeds.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Every particular nature hath content, when in its own proper course it speeds. A reasonable nature doth then speed, when first in matter of fancies and imaginations, it gives no consent to that which "}, {"id": "card_n_2705c215cde9", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xv: If it were thine act and in thine own power, wouldest thou do it?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If it were thine act and in thine own power, wouldest thou do it? If it were not, whom dost tin accuse? the atoms, or the Gods? For to do either, the part of a mad man. Thou must therefore blame nobod"}, {"id": "card_n_c595fef82737", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_iv: Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good, when by it thou art hindered from some other better work. That is, spend"}, {"id": "card_n_1fd3245da040", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_xiv: A man's soul doth wrong and disrespect itself first and especially, when as m...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A man's soul doth wrong and disrespect itself first and especially, when as much as in itself lies it becomes an aposteme, and as it were an excrescency of the world, for to be grieved and displeased "}, {"id": "card_n_62ce6b705cad", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xix: As one that tosseth up a ball.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As one that tosseth up a ball. And what is a ball the better, if the motion of it be upwards; or the worse if it be downwards; or if it chance to fall upon the ground? So for the bubble; if it continu"}, {"id": "card_n_e22d2aa57c61", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_xii: If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, y...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, yet remember this, that man can part with no life properly, save with that little part of life, which he now lives: and that"}, {"id": "card_n_7592a0593d53", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_i: That inward mistress part of man if it be in its own true natural temper, is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That inward mistress part of man if it be in its own true natural temper, is towards all worldly chances and events ever so disposed and affected, that it will easily turn and apply itself to that whi"}, {"id": "card_n_fa69bc440f7e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_xi: Consider with thyself how man, and by what part of his, is joined unto God, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consider with thyself how man, and by what part of his, is joined unto God, and how that part of man is affected, when it is said to be diffused. 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Neither can he that is the author of that operation; for this very respect, because h"}, {"id": "card_n_b73534fa64af", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_x: It is the part of a man endowed with a good understanding faculty, to conside...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is the part of a man endowed with a good understanding faculty, to consider what they themselves are in very deed, from whose bare conceits and voices, honour and credit do proceed: as also what it"}, {"id": "card_n_f94bf8054da9", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xiv: Reason, and rational power, are faculties which content themselves with thems...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reason, and rational power, are faculties which content themselves with themselves, and their own proper operations. And as for their first inclination and motion, that they take from themselves. But "}, {"id": "card_n_3b7bd2895d93", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xviii: What portion soever, either of air or fire there be in thee, although by natu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What portion soever, either of air or fire there be in thee, although by nature it tend upwards, submitting nevertheless to the ordinance of the universe, it abides here below in this mixed body. So w"}, {"id": "card_n_30021befc8c0", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xvi: To desire things impossible is the part of a mad man.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To desire things impossible is the part of a mad man. But it is a thing impossible, that wicked man should not commit some such things. Neither doth anything happen to any man, which in the ordinary c"}, {"id": "card_n_cdd8c726c6f4", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_x: Use thine opinative faculty with all honour and respect, for in her indeed is...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Use thine opinative faculty with all honour and respect, for in her indeed is all: that thy opinion do not beget in thy understanding anything contrary to either nature, or the proper constitution of "}, {"id": "card_n_d0bd5a148095", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xli: Oh, wretched I, to whom this mischance is happened!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oh, wretched I, to whom this mischance is happened! nay, happy I, to whom this thing being happened, I can continue without grief; neither wounded by that which is present, nor in fear of that which i"}, {"id": "card_n_ed8af0974dbc", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxii: In another man's mind and understanding thy evil Cannot subsist, nor in any p...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In another man's mind and understanding thy evil Cannot subsist, nor in any proper temper or distemper of the natural constitution of thy body, which is but as it were the coat or cottage of thy soul."}, {"id": "card_n_3a938b3819b5", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xv: In the country of the Quadi at Granua, these.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the country of the Quadi at Granua, these. Betimes in the morning say to thyself, This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envi"}, {"id": "card_n_74603c751200", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_vii: A branch cut off from the continuity of that which was next unto it, must nee...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A branch cut off from the continuity of that which was next unto it, must needs be cut off from the whole tree: so a man that is divided from another man, is divided from the whole society. A branch i"}, {"id": "card_n_753bc2c0ccc7", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xv: Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in time. For the soul doth as it were receive its tincture from the fancies, and imaginations. Dye it therefore and thoroughly "}, {"id": "card_n_ef62dbeaf533", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xix: Of an operation and of a purpose there is an ending, or of an action and of a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of an operation and of a purpose there is an ending, or of an action and of a purpose we say commonly, that it is at an end: from opinion also there is an absolute cessation, which is as it were the d"}]}