{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxix: If so be that the Gods", "count": 20, "results": [{"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. For that a God should be an imprudent God, i"}, {"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_1a66a9b93398", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_viii: Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so proj...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so project all, as one who, for aught thou knowest, may at this very present depart out of this life. And as for death, if there b"}, {"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_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_51d7b943ee3f", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xxi: To them that ask thee, Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou cer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To them that ask thee, Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer first of all, that even to the very eye, they"}, {"id": "card_n_760a5ee9de1a", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xl: Either the Gods can do nothing for us at all, or they can still and allay all...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either the Gods can do nothing for us at all, or they can still and allay all the distractions and distempers of thy mind. If they can do nothing, why doest thou pray? If they can, why wouldst not tho"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_5720acc21844", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xxxix: That which is a hindrance of the senses, is an evil to the sensitive nature.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That which is a hindrance of the senses, is an evil to the sensitive nature. That which is a hindrance of the appetitive and prosecutive faculty, is an evil to the sensitive nature. As of the sensitiv"}, {"id": "card_n_71c200f80327", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxvi: What things soever are not within the proper power and jurisdiction of thine ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What things soever are not within the proper power and jurisdiction of thine own will either to compass or avoid, if thou shalt propose unto thyself any of those things as either good, or evil; it mus"}, {"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_93fc00a59426", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_ix: Either teach them better if it be in thy power; or if it be not, remember tha...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either teach them better if it be in thy power; or if it be not, remember that for this use, to bear with them patiently, was mildness and goodness granted unto thee. The Gods themselves are good unto"}]}