{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xvii: If so be that the souls", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7009081c8db2", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xvii: If so be that the souls remain after death (say they that will not believe it...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If so be that the souls remain after death (say they that will not believe it); how is the air from all eternity able to contain them? How is the earth (say I) ever from that time able to Contain the "}, {"id": "card_n_040560953580", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_iv: how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and so lovingly, should be overseen in this one only thing, that whereas then hath been some very good men that have made many"}, {"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. 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And as for death, if there b"}, {"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_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_62ce6b705cad", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xix: As one that tosseth up a ball.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As one that tosseth up a ball. And what is a ball the better, if the motion of it be upwards; or the worse if it be downwards; or if it chance to fall upon the ground? So for the bubble; if it continu"}, {"id": "card_n_5a7abceb59ea", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xix: Whensoever any man doth trespass against other, presently consider with thyse...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whensoever any man doth trespass against other, presently consider with thyself what it was that he did suppose to be good, what to be evil, when he did trespass. For this when thou knowest, thou wilt"}, {"id": "card_n_982b9ffe05f0", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xv: Not vegetative spiration, it is not surely (which plants have) that in this l...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not vegetative spiration, it is not surely (which plants have) that in this life should be so dear unto us; nor sensitive respiration, the proper life of beasts, both tame and wild; nor this our imagi"}, {"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_7592a0593d53", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_i: That inward mistress part of man if it be in its own true natural temper, is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That inward mistress part of man if it be in its own true natural temper, is towards all worldly chances and events ever so disposed and affected, that it will easily turn and apply itself to that whi"}, {"id": "card_n_1e5f8bc1fe31", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxxvii: How know we whether Socrates were so eminent indeed, and of so extraordinary ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How know we whether Socrates were so eminent indeed, and of so extraordinary a disposition? For that he died more gloriously, that he disputed with the Sophists more subtilty; that he watched in the f"}, {"id": "card_n_e4627968e602", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xxvii: Within a very little while, thou wilt be either ashes, or a sceletum; and a n...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Within a very little while, thou wilt be either ashes, or a sceletum; and a name perchance; and perchance, not so much as a name. And what is that but an empty sound, and a rebounding echo? Those thin"}, {"id": "card_n_e823fd774f88", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xvii: After one consideration, man is nearest unto us; as we are bound to do them g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "After one consideration, man is nearest unto us; as we are bound to do them good, and to bear with them. But as he may oppose any of our true proper actions, so man is unto me but as a thing indiffere"}, {"id": "card_n_9616e041162d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xxxviii: If thou canst but withdraw conceit and opinion concerning that which may seem...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If thou canst but withdraw conceit and opinion concerning that which may seem hurtful and offensive, thou thyself art as safe, as safe may be. Thou thyself? and who is that? Thy reason. 'Yea, but I am"}, {"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_da89221a6885", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_ii: A pleasant song or dance; the Pancratiast's exercise, sports that thou art wo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pleasant song or dance; the Pancratiast's exercise, sports that thou art wont to be much taken with, thou shalt easily contemn; if the harmonious voice thou shalt divide into so many particular soun"}, {"id": "card_n_a14f3e8fa698", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xii: At the conceit and apprehension that such and such a one hath sinned, thus re...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At the conceit and apprehension that such and such a one hath sinned, thus reason with thyself; What do I know whether this be a sin indeed, as it seems to be? But if it be, what do I know but that he"}, {"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"}]}