{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxxix: Sayest thou unto that r", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e08fd767e402", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxxix: Sayest thou unto that rational part, Thou art dead; corruption hath taken hol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sayest thou unto that rational part, Thou art dead; corruption hath taken hold on thee? Doth it then also void excrements? Doth it like either oxen, or sheep, graze or feed; that it also should be mor"}, {"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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Just as much reason hast thou to grieve that thou must live but so many years, and not longer. For as for bulk a"}, {"id": "card_n_9d1ce3755a11", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xxxii: If ever thou sawest either a hand, or a foot, or a head lying by itself, in s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If ever thou sawest either a hand, or a foot, or a head lying by itself, in some place or other, as cut off from the rest of the body, such must thou conceive him to make himself, as much as in him li"}, {"id": "card_n_62f1b69b1f00", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xviii: These three things thou must have always in a readiness: first concerning thi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "These three things thou must have always in a readiness: first concerning thine own actions, whether thou doest nothing either idly, or otherwise, than justice and equity do require: and concerning th"}, {"id": "card_n_beed2fb14aaf", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xlvii: Keep thyself to the first bare and naked apprehensions of things, as they pre...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Keep thyself to the first bare and naked apprehensions of things, as they present themselves unto thee, and add not unto them. It is reported unto thee, that such a one speaketh ill of thee. Well; tha"}, {"id": "card_n_5e584ad5b1d7", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxi: When thou seest Satyro, think of Socraticus and Eutyches, or Hymen, and when ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When thou seest Satyro, think of Socraticus and Eutyches, or Hymen, and when Euphrates, think of Eutychio, and Sylvanus, when Alciphron, of Tropaeophorus, when Xenophon, of Crito, or Severus. 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By the Gods I adjure thee, that thou get thee gone, as thou earnest: for I nee"}, {"id": "card_n_28cb94cee1c8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_i: Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and p...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and possess, if thou doest not envy thyself thine own happiness. And that will be, if thou shalt forget all that is past, and fo"}, {"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_ea5ce95a8c6c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxiii: Let it not be in any man's power, to say truly of thee, that thou art not tru...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let it not be in any man's power, to say truly of thee, that thou art not truly simple, or sincere and open, or not good. Let him be deceived whosoever he be that shall have any such opinion of thee. 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