{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xxi: To them that ask thee, Wh", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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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And then, that I did not fall into the ambition of ordinary sophists, either to write tract"}, {"id": "card_n_cdae018e6f84", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xv: To live happily is an inward power of the soul, when she is affected with ind...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To live happily is an inward power of the soul, when she is affected with indifferency, towards those things that are by their nature indifferent. To be thus affected she must consider all worldly obj"}, {"id": "card_n_ba5f6a763ce0", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_viii: To grow together like fellow branches in matter of good correspondence and af...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To grow together like fellow branches in matter of good correspondence and affection; but not in matter of opinions. They that shall oppose thee in thy right courses, as it is not in their power to di"}, {"id": "card_n_dcc812fcee5f", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_lii: To them that are sick of the jaundice, honey seems bitter; and to them that a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To them that are sick of the jaundice, honey seems bitter; and to them that are bitten by a mad dog, the water terrible; and to children, a little ball seems a fine thing. And why then should I be ang"}, {"id": "card_n_da61b7cf43cd", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxiv: As he that is bitten by a mad dog, is afraid of everything almost that he see...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As he that is bitten by a mad dog, is afraid of everything almost that he seeth: so unto him, whom the dogmata have once bitten, or in whom true knowledge hath made an impression, everything almost th"}, {"id": "card_n_fa7a5908e428", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_i: This also, among other things, may serve to keep thee from vainglory; if thou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This also, among other things, may serve to keep thee from vainglory; if thou shalt consider, that thou art now altogether incapable of the commendation of one, who all his life long, or from his yout"}, {"id": "card_n_f5aba15934d9", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxx: Look not about upon other men's minds and understandings; but look right on f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Look not about upon other men's minds and understandings; but look right on forwards whither nature, both that of the universe, in those things that happen unto thee; and thine in particular, in those"}, {"id": "card_n_69651c1b7d5d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxv: Fit and accommodate thyself to that estate and to those occurrences, which by...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fit and accommodate thyself to that estate and to those occurrences, which by the destinies have been annexed unto thee; and love those men whom thy fate it is to live with; but love them truly. 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But what prouder, than for me with a strange madness to maintain myself to be that by n"}, {"id": "card_n_6decaf5930ba", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xvii: Who can choose but wonder at them?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Who can choose but wonder at them? They will not speak well of them that are at the same time with them, and live with them; yet they themselves are very ambitious, that they that shall follow, whom t"}]}