{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_x: It is the part of a man end", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c4449448df1e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_vi: Every particular nature hath content, when in its own proper course it speeds.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Every particular nature hath content, when in its own proper course it speeds. A reasonable nature doth then speed, when first in matter of fancies and imaginations, it gives no consent to that which "}, {"id": "card_n_1fd3245da040", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_xiv: A man's soul doth wrong and disrespect itself first and especially, when as m...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A man's soul doth wrong and disrespect itself first and especially, when as much as in itself lies it becomes an aposteme, and as it were an excrescency of the world, for to be grieved and displeased "}, {"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_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_e22d2aa57c61", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_xii: If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, y...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, yet remember this, that man can part with no life properly, save with that little part of life, which he now lives: and that"}, {"id": "card_n_fa69bc440f7e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_xi: Consider with thyself how man, and by what part of his, is joined unto God, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consider with thyself how man, and by what part of his, is joined unto God, and how that part of man is affected, when it is said to be diffused. 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But this will not suffice except thou add also what ought to be thi"}, {"id": "card_n_d0bd5a148095", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xli: Oh, wretched I, to whom this mischance is happened!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oh, wretched I, to whom this mischance is happened! nay, happy I, to whom this thing being happened, I can continue without grief; neither wounded by that which is present, nor in fear of that which i"}, {"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_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_4058d240a562", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xvii: No operation whatsoever it he, ceasing for a while, can be truly said to suff...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "No operation whatsoever it he, ceasing for a while, can be truly said to suffer any evil, because it is at an end. Neither can he that is the author of that operation; for this very respect, because 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_ed8af0974dbc", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxii: In another man's mind and understanding thy evil Cannot subsist, nor in any p...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In another man's mind and understanding thy evil Cannot subsist, nor in any proper temper or distemper of the natural constitution of thy body, which is but as it were the coat or cottage of thy soul."}, {"id": "card_n_3a938b3819b5", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xv: In the country of the Quadi at Granua, these.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the country of the Quadi at Granua, these. Betimes in the morning say to thyself, This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envi"}, {"id": "card_n_abb11a36aa46", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xxv: The true joy of a man, is to do that which properly belongs unto a man.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The true joy of a man, is to do that which properly belongs unto a man. That which is most proper unto a man, is, first, to be kindly affected towards them that are of the same kind and nature as he i"}, {"id": "card_n_71e5ef24b2bf", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xvi: Whatsoever I am, is either flesh, or life, or that which we commonly call the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever I am, is either flesh, or life, or that which we commonly call the mistress and overruling part of man; reason. Away with thy books, suffer not thy mind any more to be distracted, and carri"}, {"id": "card_n_54aba1d3c8cb", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_vi: Either with Epicurus, we must fondly imagine the atoms to be the cause of all...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either with Epicurus, we must fondly imagine the atoms to be the cause of all things, or we must needs grant a nature. Let this then be thy first ground, that thou art part of that universe, which is "}, {"id": "card_n_74603c751200", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_vii: A branch cut off from the continuity of that which was next unto it, must nee...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A branch cut off from the continuity of that which was next unto it, must needs be cut off from the whole tree: so a man that is divided from another man, is divided from the whole society. A branch i"}, {"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. For what thou dost conceive of these, of a "}]}