{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxviii: Even as if any of the", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_090dc12c3c57", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxviii: Even as if any of the gods should tell thee, Thou shalt certainly die to-morr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Even as if any of the gods should tell thee, Thou shalt certainly die to-morrow, or next day, thou wouldst not, except thou wert extremely base and pusillanimous, take it for a great benefit, rather t"}, {"id": "card_n_2760b2e8c462", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxix: If so be that the Gods have deliberated in particular of those things that sh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If so be that the Gods have deliberated in particular of those things that should happen unto me, I must stand to their deliberation, as discrete and wise. 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As I think Heraclitus in a place speaketh of them that sleep, that even th"}, {"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? 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