{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xxxi: 'Of the free will there", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f5b06e4d5461", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xxxi: 'Of the free will there is no thief or robber:' out of Epictetus; Whose is th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "'Of the free will there is no thief or robber:' out of Epictetus; Whose is this also: that we should find a certain art and method of assenting; and that we should always observe with great care and h"}, {"id": "card_c_a2798d1545ac", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_x: Of  → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxxi: ", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in aurelius_meditations."}, {"id": "card_c_f29f39cc71d3", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxxi:  → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_x: Of ", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential prev in aurelius_meditations."}, {"id": "card_n_ae01de9e0373", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxvi: There is not any man that is so happy in his death, but that some of those th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is not any man that is so happy in his death, but that some of those that are by him when he dies, will be ready to rejoice at his supposed calamity. Is it one that was virtuous and wise indeed?"}, {"id": "card_n_f8cc5c36e03d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xxiii: 'Where there shall neither roarer be, nor harlot.' Why so?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "'Where there shall neither roarer be, nor harlot.' Why so? As thou dost purpose to live, when thou hast retired thyself to some such place, where neither roarer nor harlot is: so mayest thou here. And"}, {"id": "card_n_657fa07e9e39", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxxi: To comprehend the whole world together in thy mind, and the whole course of t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To comprehend the whole world together in thy mind, and the whole course of this present age to represent it unto thyself, and to fix thy thoughts upon the sudden change of every particular object. Ho"}, {"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"}, {"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_30088c59ad6d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xxiii: There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by walls and moun...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by walls and mountains, and other thousand objects. There is but one common substance of the whole world, though it be concluded and restrai"}, {"id": "card_n_30ea33fba8b8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xxx: Let death surprise me when it will, and where it will, I may be εὔμοιρος, or ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let death surprise me when it will, and where it will, I may be εὔμοιρος, or a happy man, nevertheless. For he is a happy man, who in his lifetime dealeth unto himself a happy lot and portion. A happy"}, {"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_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_180bd755dd3c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxv: There is, who without so much as a coat; and there is, who without so much as...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is, who without so much as a coat; and there is, who without so much as a book, doth put philosophy in practice. I am half naked, neither have I bread to eat, and yet I depart not from reason, s"}, {"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_7146e5459b69", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxxi: As one who had lived, and were now to die by right, whatsoever is yet remaini...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As one who had lived, and were now to die by right, whatsoever is yet remaining, bestow that wholly as a gracious overplus upon a virtuous life. Love and affect that only, whatsoever it be that happen"}, {"id": "card_n_176a23fcdf47", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxix: From some high place as it were to look down, and to behold here flocks, and ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From some high place as it were to look down, and to behold here flocks, and there sacrifices, without number; and all kind of navigation; some in a rough and stormy sea, and some in a calm: the gener"}, {"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_c77f0105da08", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xxvi: What is the present estate of my understanding?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What is the present estate of my understanding? For herein lieth all indeed. As for all other things, they are without the compass of mine own will: and if without the compass of my will, then are the"}, {"id": "card_n_ddfd2b1ad931", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_v: Is my reason, and understanding sufficient for this, or no?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is my reason, and understanding sufficient for this, or no? If it be sufficient, without any private applause, or public ostentation as of an instrument, which by nature I am provided of, I will make "}, {"id": "card_n_4a552cb56f0b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_i: O my soul, the time I trust will be, when thou shalt be good, simple, single,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "O my soul, the time I trust will be, when thou shalt be good, simple, single, more open and visible, than that body by which it is enclosed. Thou wilt one day be sensible of their happiness, whose end"}]}