{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_x: Labour not as one to whom i", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5d984577d4f8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_x: Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that eit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to"}, {"id": "card_n_90d757cb165e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_ix: Be not discontented, be not disheartened, be not out of hope, if often it suc...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Be not discontented, be not disheartened, be not out of hope, if often it succeed not so well with thee punctually and precisely to do all things according to the right dogmata, but being once cast of"}, {"id": "card_n_74a109adc16e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_iii: Thou must not in matter of death carry thyself scornfully, but as one that is...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thou must not in matter of death carry thyself scornfully, but as one that is well pleased with it, as being one of those things that nature hath appointed. 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Hast thou not time and opportunity to exercise thyself, not to wrong thyself; to strive against all carnal pleasures and pains, and to get the upp"}, {"id": "card_n_4c7d3d5831df", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xlv: Nothing can happen unto thee, which is not incidental unto thee, as thou art ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nothing can happen unto thee, which is not incidental unto thee, as thou art a man. 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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_71e5ef24b2bf", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xvi: Whatsoever I am, is either flesh, or life, or that which we commonly call the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever I am, is either flesh, or life, or that which we commonly call the mistress and overruling part of man; reason. Away with thy books, suffer not thy mind any more to be distracted, and carri"}, {"id": "card_n_b154240256de", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_iv: To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my lif...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my life wanted some redress and cure. And then, that I did not fall into the ambition of ordinary sophists, either to write tract"}, {"id": "card_n_41670b39084c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_i: Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike beh"}, {"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. He it was also that did"}, {"id": "card_n_f95f8e03bebe", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxi: As long as the foot doth that which belongeth unto it to do, and the hand tha...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As long as the foot doth that which belongeth unto it to do, and the hand that which belongs unto it, their labour, whatsoever it be, is not unnatural. So a man as long as he doth that which is proper"}, {"id": "card_n_828ccd4d8a9a", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xiii: This may ever be my comfort and security: my understanding, that ruleth over ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This may ever be my comfort and security: my understanding, that ruleth over all, will not of itself bring trouble and vexation upon itself. This I say; it will not put itself in any fear, it will not"}, {"id": "card_n_adbe43d3a6d9", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_vii: Of all unreasonable creatures, there is but one unreasonable soul; and of all...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of all unreasonable creatures, there is but one unreasonable soul; and of all that are reasonable, but one reasonable soul, divided betwixt them all. As of all earthly things there is but one earth, a"}, {"id": "card_n_7559cc4672d6", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_ix: Of Alexander the Platonic, not often nor without great necessity to say, or t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of Alexander the Platonic, not often nor without great necessity to say, or to write to any man in a letter, 'I am not at leisure'; nor in this manner still to put off those duties, which we owe to ou"}]}