{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_v: Is my reason, and understan", "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_909296fb5083", "title": "Psalm 38 — Psalm 38", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Psalm by David, for a memorial.>> Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. There is no soun"}, {"id": "card_n_76a83049dde8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xli: 'In my sickness' (saith Epicurus of himself:) 'my discourses were not concern...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "'In my sickness' (saith Epicurus of himself:) 'my discourses were not concerning the nature of my disease, neither was that, to them that came to visit me, the subject of my talk; but in the considera"}, {"id": "card_n_b4d5d0103d55", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xi: From my brother Severus, to be kind and loving to all them of my house and fa...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From my brother Severus, to be kind and loving to all them of my house and family; by whom also I came to the knowledge of Thrasea and Helvidius, and Cato, and Dio, and Brutus. 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From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike beh"}, {"id": "card_n_ddfd2b1ad931", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_v: Is my reason, and understanding sufficient for this, or no?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is my reason, and understanding sufficient for this, or no? If it be sufficient, without any private applause, or public ostentation as of an instrument, which by nature I am provided of, I will make "}, {"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. But if any shall by force withstand thee, and hinder"}, {"id": "card_n_97ae1a069804", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxi: I for my part will do what belongs unto me; as for other things, whether thin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I for my part will do what belongs unto me; as for other things, whether things unsensible or things irrational; or if rational, yet deceived and ignorant of the true way, they shall not trouble or di"}, {"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_n_8d1ca472069c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_iv: I continue my course by actions according to nature, until I fall and cease, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I continue my course by actions according to nature, until I fall and cease, breathing out my last breath into that air, by which continually breathed in I did live; and falling upon that earth, out o"}, {"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_a84edfe2920a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_003: O Lord my God, give ear unto my prayer, and let Thy mercy hearken unto my des...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord my God, give ear unto my prayer, and let Thy mercy hearken unto my desire: because it is anxious not for myself alone, but would serve brotherly charity; and Thou seest my heart, that so it is."}, {"id": "card_n_8d606e8697e7", "title": "Psalm 102 — Psalm 102", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.>> Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you. Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress."}, {"id": "card_n_60d00001f341", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxix: Where the matter may be effected agreeably to that reason, which both unto th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Where the matter may be effected agreeably to that reason, which both unto the Gods and men is common, there can be no just cause of grief or sorrow. For where the fruit and benefit of an action well "}, {"id": "card_n_f94bf8054da9", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xiv: Reason, and rational power, are faculties which content themselves with thems...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reason, and rational power, are faculties which content themselves with themselves, and their own proper operations. And as for their first inclination and motion, that they take from themselves. 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