{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xl: Either the Gods can do not", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_760a5ee9de1a", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xl: Either the Gods can do nothing for us at all, or they can still and allay all...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either the Gods can do nothing for us at all, or they can still and allay all the distractions and distempers of thy mind. If they can do nothing, why doest thou pray? 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Let him be deceived whosoever he be that shall have any such opinion of thee. "}, {"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_4c7d3d5831df", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xlv: Nothing can happen unto thee, which is not incidental unto thee, as thou art ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nothing can happen unto thee, which is not incidental unto thee, as thou art a man. As nothing can happen either to an ox, a vine, or to a stone, which is not incidental unto them; unto every one in h"}, {"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_7e71b319c348", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_ii: Of him that brought me up, not to be fondly addicted to either of the two gre...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of him that brought me up, not to be fondly addicted to either of the two great factions of the coursers in the circus, called Prasini, and Veneti: nor in the amphitheatre partially to favour any of t"}, {"id": "card_n_1a66a9b93398", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_viii: Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so proj...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so project all, as one who, for aught thou knowest, may at this very present depart out of this life. And as for death, if there b"}, {"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_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_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_5b481f4b8fe2", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_l: Will either passengers, or patients, find fault and complain, either the one ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Will either passengers, or patients, find fault and complain, either the one if they be well carried, or the others if well cured? Do they take care for any more than this; the one, that their shipmas"}, {"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_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_040560953580", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_iv: how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and so lovingly, should be overseen in this one only thing, that whereas then hath been some very good men that have made many"}, {"id": "card_n_b4a7f655fb13", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxvi: Out of Plato.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Out of Plato. 'My answer, full of justice and equity, should be this: Thy speech is not right, O man! if thou supposest that he that is of any worth at all, should apprehend either life or death, as a"}, {"id": "card_n_5e8f21386bd7", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xlviii: Is the cucumber bitter?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is the cucumber bitter? set it away. Brambles are in the way? avoid them. Let this suffice. Add not presently speaking unto thyself, What serve these things for in the world? For, this, one that is ac"}]}