{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_x: Labour not as one to whom i", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5d984577d4f8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_x: Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that eit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to"}, {"id": "card_n_90d757cb165e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_ix: Be not discontented, be not disheartened, be not out of hope, if often it suc...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Be not discontented, be not disheartened, be not out of hope, if often it succeed not so well with thee punctually and precisely to do all things according to the right dogmata, but being once cast of"}, {"id": "card_n_74a109adc16e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_iii: Thou must not in matter of death carry thyself scornfully, but as one that is...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thou must not in matter of death carry thyself scornfully, but as one that is well pleased with it, as being one of those things that nature hath appointed. 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But this will not suffice except thou add also what ought to be thi"}, {"id": "card_n_dbdedfebf776", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_xvii: To be capable of fancies and imaginations, is common to man and beast.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To be capable of fancies and imaginations, is common to man and beast. To be violently drawn and moved by the lusts and desires of the soul, is proper to wild beasts and monsters, such as Phalaris and"}]}