{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_xvii: To be capable of fancies", "count": 20, "results": [{"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"}, {"id": "card_n_8363b9e09e26", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_v: No man can admire thee for thy sharp acute language, such is thy natural disa...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "No man can admire thee for thy sharp acute language, such is thy natural disability that way. Be it so: yet there be many other good things, for the want of which thou canst not plead the want or natu"}, {"id": "card_n_b71505ae2c02", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xii: From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power of myself, an...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power of myself, and in nothing to be carried about; to be cheerful and courageous in all sudden chances and accidents, as in sicknesses: to l"}, {"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. 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