{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_iv: If to understand and to be", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_cac9863fdd9d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_iv: If to understand and to be reasonable be common unto all men, then is that re...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If to understand and to be reasonable be common unto all men, then is that reason, for which we are termed reasonable, common unto all. If reason is general, then is that reason also, which prescribet"}, {"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. 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For that a God should be an imprudent God, i"}, {"id": "card_n_0e5326a28a14", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xlv: Let us do our best endeavours to persuade them; but however, if reason and ju...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let us do our best endeavours to persuade them; but however, if reason and justice lead thee to it, do it, though they be never so much against it. 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