{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_vi: Such and such things, from", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0db8198812b2", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_vi: Such and such things, from such and such causes, must of necessity proceed.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Such and such things, from such and such causes, must of necessity proceed. He that would not have such things to happen, is as he that would have the fig-tree grow without any sap or moisture. In sum"}, {"id": "card_n_e3621858d56d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xvii: Whatsoever proceeds from the gods immediately, that any man will grant totall...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever proceeds from the gods immediately, that any man will grant totally depends from their divine providence. As for those things that are commonly said to happen by fortune, even those must be"}, {"id": "card_n_05b8128f5115", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_vi: Let not things future trouble thee.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let not things future trouble thee. For if necessity so require that they come to pass, thou shalt (whensoever that is) be provided for them with the same reason, by which whatsoever is now present, i"}, {"id": "card_n_2f888cd55912", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_iii: Of Diognetus, not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily to believe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of Diognetus, not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily to believe those things, which are commonly spoken, by such as take upon them to work wonders, and by sorcerers, or prestidigitators,"}, {"id": "card_n_62f1b69b1f00", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xviii: These three things thou must have always in a readiness: first concerning thi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "These three things thou must have always in a readiness: first concerning thine own actions, whether thou doest nothing either idly, or otherwise, than justice and equity do require: and concerning th"}, {"id": "card_n_88182c944f73", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxvi: Up and down, from one age to another, go the ordinary things of the world; be...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Up and down, from one age to another, go the ordinary things of the world; being still the same. 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That is, spend"}, {"id": "card_n_4a192cae2d55", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xiii: Those things which the common sort of people do admire, are most of them such...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Those things which the common sort of people do admire, are most of them such things as are very general, and may be comprehended under things merely natural, or naturally affected and qualified: as s"}, {"id": "card_n_8375b1560917", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xiv: From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, a good si...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, a good sister, good masters, good domestics, loving kinsmen, almost all that I have; and that I never through haste and rashness tra"}, {"id": "card_n_af07b18a9161", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxvi: From man is the seed, that once cast into the womb man hath no more to do wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From man is the seed, that once cast into the womb man hath no more to do with it. Another cause succeedeth, and undertakes the work, and in time brings a child (that wonderful effect from such a begi"}, {"id": "card_n_6bcb2e71c089", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxix: Let it be thy perpetual meditation, how many physicians who once looked so gr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let it be thy perpetual meditation, how many physicians who once looked so grim, and so theatrically shrunk their brows upon their patients, are dead and gone themselves. How many astrologers, after t"}, {"id": "card_n_26c172d96279", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_ii: Let it be thy earnest and incessant care as a Roman and a man to perform what...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let it be thy earnest and incessant care as a Roman and a man to perform whatsoever it is that thou art about, with true and unfeigned gravity, natural affection, freedom and justice: and as for all o"}, {"id": "card_n_ae8ff8180ae8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_v: Tragedies were at first brought in and instituted, to put men in mind of worl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tragedies were at first brought in and instituted, to put men in mind of worldly chances and casualties: that these things in the ordinary course of nature did so happen: that men that were much pleas"}, {"id": "card_n_bebd5274c6b8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxvii: To look back upon things of former ages, as upon the manifold changes and con...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To look back upon things of former ages, as upon the manifold changes and conversions of several monarchies and commonwealths. We may also foresee things future, for they shall all be of the same kind"}, {"id": "card_n_b225eaf6a957", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxviii: Do all things as becometh the disciple of Antoninus Pius.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Do all things as becometh the disciple of Antoninus Pius. Remember his resolute constancy in things that were done by him according to reason, his equability in all things, his sanctity; the cheerfuln"}, {"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_c_04de61eeaefb", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_v: Tra → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_vi: Su", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in aurelius_meditations."}, {"id": "card_c_0a0ea0268d38", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_liii:  → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_vi: Le", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in aurelius_meditations."}, {"id": "card_c_0b07dc0eb622", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_vi: Su → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xvii: ", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential prev in aurelius_meditations."}]}