{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xi: Either fate, (and that eit", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d474709a22a0", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xi: Either fate, (and that either an absolute necessity, and unavoidable decree; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either fate, (and that either an absolute necessity, and unavoidable decree; or a placable and flexible Providence) or all is a mere casual confusion, void of all order and government. 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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_a6ba31737818", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxviii: Remember, that that which sets a man at work, and hath power over the affecti...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Remember, that that which sets a man at work, and hath power over the affections to draw them either one way, or the other way, is not any external thing properly, but that which is hidden within ever"}, {"id": "card_n_03faa6ae44bf", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xix: Cast away from thee opinion, and thou art safe.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cast away from thee opinion, and thou art safe. And what is it that hinders thee from casting of it away? 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And then, that I did not fall into the ambition of ordinary sophists, either to write tract"}, {"id": "card_n_c595fef82737", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_iv: Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good, when by it thou art hindered from some other better work. That is, spend"}, {"id": "card_n_30bf94c61874", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_i: He that is unjust, is also impious.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He that is unjust, is also impious. For the nature of the universe, having made all reasonable creatures one for another, to the end that they should do one another good; more or less according to the"}]}