{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_x: This, what is it in itself,", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_32c01ea5fa4d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_x: This, what is it in itself, and by itself, according to its proper constitution?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This, what is it in itself, and by itself, according to its proper constitution? What is the substance of it? What is the matter, or proper use? What is the form or efficient cause? What is it for in "}, {"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_ea5ce95a8c6c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxiii: Let it not be in any man's power, to say truly of thee, that thou art not tru...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let it not be in any man's power, to say truly of thee, that thou art not truly simple, or sincere and open, or not good. Let him be deceived whosoever he be that shall have any such opinion of thee. "}, {"id": "card_n_3a54cb34e7f8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_xi: To these ever-present helps and mementoes, let one more be added, ever to mak...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To these ever-present helps and mementoes, let one more be added, ever to make a particular description and delineation as it were of every object that presents itself to thy mind, that thou mayest wh"}, {"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_51a06cb8369b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xiv: How rotten and insincere is he, that saith, I am resolved to carry myself her...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How rotten and insincere is he, that saith, I am resolved to carry myself hereafter towards you with all ingenuity and simplicity. O man, what doest thou mean! what needs this profession of thine? the"}, {"id": "card_n_b4e9e27254ce", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xix: That which doth not hurt the city itself; cannot hurt any citizen.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That which doth not hurt the city itself; cannot hurt any citizen. This rule thou must remember to apply and make use of upon every conceit and apprehension of wrong. If the whole city be not hurt by "}, {"id": "card_n_cdae018e6f84", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xv: To live happily is an inward power of the soul, when she is affected with ind...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To live happily is an inward power of the soul, when she is affected with indifferency, towards those things that are by their nature indifferent. To be thus affected she must consider all worldly obj"}, {"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_d03e705e0480", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xlii: This time that is now present, bestow thou upon thyself.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This time that is now present, bestow thou upon thyself. They that rather hunt for fame after death, do not consider, that those men that shall be hereafter, will be even such, as these whom now they "}, {"id": "card_n_26a8917f0d9e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_xii: What is this, that now my fancy is set upon?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What is this, that now my fancy is set upon? of what things doth it consist? how long can it last? which of all the virtues is the proper virtue for this present use? as whether meekness, fortitude, t"}, {"id": "card_n_d8bd8f1d0487", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xvi: Of everything thou must consider from whence it came, of what things it doth ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of everything thou must consider from whence it came, of what things it doth consist, and into what it will be changed: what will be the nature of it, or what it will be like unto when it is changed; "}, {"id": "card_n_3ba677a48bac", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxxv: Will this querulousness, this murmuring, this complaining and dissembling nev...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Will this querulousness, this murmuring, this complaining and dissembling never be at an end? What then is it, that troubleth thee? Doth any new thing happen unto thee? What doest thou so wonder at? A"}, {"id": "card_n_d5e8bf35da56", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_i: The matter itself, of which the universe doth consist, is of itself very trac...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The matter itself, of which the universe doth consist, is of itself very tractable and pliable. That rational essence that doth govern it, hath in itself no cause to do evil. It hath no evil in itself"}, {"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 "}, {"id": "card_n_58913aca9d7d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xvi: He who is greedy of credit and reputation after his death, doth not consider,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He who is greedy of credit and reputation after his death, doth not consider, that they themselves by whom he is remembered, shall soon after every one of them be dead; and they likewise that succeed "}, {"id": "card_n_0694dc4725b3", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_vii: All parts of the world, (all things I mean that are contained within the whol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "All parts of the world, (all things I mean that are contained within the whole world), must of necessity at some time or other come to corruption. Alteration I should say, to speak truly and properly;"}, {"id": "card_n_262f903a396d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xx: They will say commonly, Meddle not with many things, if thou wilt live cheerf...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "They will say commonly, Meddle not with many things, if thou wilt live cheerfully. Certainly there is nothing better, than for a man to confine himself to necessary actions; to such and so many only, "}, {"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_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"}]}