{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxviii: Even as if any of the", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_090dc12c3c57", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxviii: Even as if any of the gods should tell thee, Thou shalt certainly die to-morr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Even as if any of the gods should tell thee, Thou shalt certainly die to-morrow, or next day, thou wouldst not, except thou wert extremely base and pusillanimous, take it for a great benefit, rather t"}, {"id": "card_c_ba729508c610", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xx: If → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_vi: Of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential prev in aurelius_meditations."}, {"id": "card_c_ecd950838f6f", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_vi: Of → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xx: If", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in aurelius_meditations."}, {"id": "card_n_9616e041162d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xxxviii: If thou canst but withdraw conceit and opinion concerning that which may seem...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If thou canst but withdraw conceit and opinion concerning that which may seem hurtful and offensive, thou thyself art as safe, as safe may be. 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For that a God should be an imprudent God, i"}, {"id": "card_n_71c200f80327", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxvi: What things soever are not within the proper power and jurisdiction of thine ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What things soever are not within the proper power and jurisdiction of thine own will either to compass or avoid, if thou shalt propose unto thyself any of those things as either good, or evil; it mus"}, {"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_af6057f6df9d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxvii: We all work to one effect, some willingly, and with a rational apprehension o...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We all work to one effect, some willingly, and with a rational apprehension of what we do: others without any such knowledge. As I think Heraclitus in a place speaketh of them that sleep, that even th"}, {"id": "card_n_828ccd4d8a9a", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xiii: This may ever be my comfort and security: my understanding, that ruleth over ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This may ever be my comfort and security: my understanding, that ruleth over all, will not of itself bring trouble and vexation upon itself. This I say; it will not put itself in any fear, it will not"}, {"id": "card_n_f163a17353b9", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xli: Why should I grieve myself; who never did willingly grieve any other!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Why should I grieve myself; who never did willingly grieve any other! One thing rejoices one and another thing another. As for me, this is my joy, if my understanding be right and sound, as neither av"}, {"id": "card_n_613971731e5c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxxviii: Either all things by the providence of reason happen unto every particular, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either all things by the providence of reason happen unto every particular, as a part of one general body; and then it is against reason that a part should complain of anything that happens for the go"}, {"id": "card_n_15bc196ee012", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xii: What those things are in themselves, which by the greatest part are esteemed ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What those things are in themselves, which by the greatest part are esteemed good, thou mayest gather even from this. For if a man shall hear things mentioned as good, which are really good indeed, su"}, {"id": "card_n_ccac8d434d85", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxvii: Use thyself; as often, as thou seest any man do anything, presently (if it be...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Use thyself; as often, as thou seest any man do anything, presently (if it be possible) to say unto thyself, What is this man's end in this his action? But begin this course with thyself first of all,"}, {"id": "card_n_cac9863fdd9d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_iv: If to understand and to be reasonable be common unto all men, then is that re...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If to understand and to be reasonable be common unto all men, then is that reason, for which we are termed reasonable, common unto all. If reason is general, then is that reason also, which prescribet"}, {"id": "card_n_83fe1c6cef62", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xx: If anybody shall reprove me, and shall make it apparent unto me, that in any ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If anybody shall reprove me, and shall make it apparent unto me, that in any either opinion or action of mine I do err, I will most gladly retract. For it is the truth that I seek after, by which I am"}, {"id": "card_n_70303fecaefc", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xii: Will any contemn me?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Will any contemn me? let him look to that, upon what grounds he does it: my care shall be that I may never be found either doing or speaking anything that doth truly deserve contempt. Will any hate me"}, {"id": "card_n_bb94fccc9fc7", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxiv: if any should put this question unto thee, how this word Antoninus is written...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "if any should put this question unto thee, how this word Antoninus is written, wouldst thou not presently fix thine intention upon it, and utter out in order every letter of it? And if any shall begin"}, {"id": "card_n_3fead6d04b56", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xii: Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good; not for any man's...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good; not for any man's sake, but for thine own nature's sake; as if either gold, or the emerald, or purple, should ever be saying to themselves, "}, {"id": "card_n_a6ba31737818", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxviii: Remember, that that which sets a man at work, and hath power over the affecti...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Remember, that that which sets a man at work, and hath power over the affections to draw them either one way, or the other way, is not any external thing properly, but that which is hidden within ever"}, {"id": "card_n_474ba09453b7", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xlii: It is but an ordinary coarse one, yet it is a good effectual remedy against t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is but an ordinary coarse one, yet it is a good effectual remedy against the fear of death, for a man to consider in his mind the examples of such, who greedily and covetously (as it were) did for "}]}