{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations 5.21: To live with the Gods.", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1aca8082193f", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 5.21: To live with the Gods.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To live with the Gods. He liveth with the Gods, who at all times affords unto them the spectacle of a soul, both contented and well pleased with whatsoever is afforded, or allotted unto her; and perfo", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_1a66a9b93398", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 2.8: Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so proj...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so project all, as one who, for aught thou knowest, may at this very present depart out of this life. And as for death, if there b", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_51d7b943ee3f", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 12.21: 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", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_040560953580", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 12.4: how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and so lovingly, should be overseen in this one only thing, that whereas then hath been some very good men that have made many", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_2760b2e8c462", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 6.39: If so be that the Gods have deliberated in particular of those things that sh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If so be that the Gods have deliberated in particular of those things that should happen unto me, I must stand to their deliberation, as discrete and wise. For that a God should be an imprudent God, i", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_760a5ee9de1a", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 9.40: 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", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_8375b1560917", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xiv: From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, a good si...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, a good sister, good masters, good domestics, loving kinsmen, almost all that I have; and that I never through haste and rashness tra", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_6bcb2e71c089", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 4.39: Let it be thy perpetual meditation, how many physicians who once looked so gr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let it be thy perpetual meditation, how many physicians who once looked so grim, and so theatrically shrunk their brows upon their patients, are dead and gone themselves. How many astrologers, after t", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_book_55317", "title": "The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 — Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742, by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius. Subjects: Stoics; Ethics; Life. Read the full text", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Project Gutenberg (public domain)", "readable": true, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_e22d2aa57c61", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 2.12: If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, y...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, yet remember this, that man can part with no life properly, save with that little part of life, which he now lives: and that", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_f111a9d9aaf0", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 10.17: So live as indifferent to the world and all worldly objects, as one who livet...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "So live as indifferent to the world and all worldly objects, as one who liveth by himself alone upon some desert hill. For whether here, or there, if the whole world be but as one town, it matters not", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_753bc2c0ccc7", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 5.15: Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in time. For the soul doth as it were receive its tincture from the fancies, and imaginations. Dye it therefore and thoroughly ", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_090dc12c3c57", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 4.38: Even as if any of the gods should tell thee, Thou shalt certainly die to-morr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Even as if any of the gods should tell thee, Thou shalt certainly die to-morrow, or next day, thou wouldst not, except thou wert extremely base and pusillanimous, take it for a great benefit, rather t", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_fa69bc440f7e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 2.11: Consider with thyself how man, and by what part of his, is joined unto God, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consider with thyself how man, and by what part of his, is joined unto God, and how that part of man is affected, when it is said to be diffused. There is nothing more wretched than that soul, which i", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_book_6920", "title": "Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius — Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius. Subjects: Stoics; Ethics; Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180; Life. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.or", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Project Gutenberg (public domain)", "readable": true, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_book_15877", "title": "Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius. Subjects: Stoics; Ethics; Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180; Life. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gu", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Project Gutenberg (public domain)", "readable": true, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_05d9e0f37764", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 3.15: Be not deceived; for thou shalt never live to read thy moral commentaries, no...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Be not deceived; for thou shalt never live to read thy moral commentaries, nor the acts of the famous Romans and Grecians; nor those excerpta from several books; all which thou hadst provided and laid", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_0a08c9d3403b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 7.25: Out of several poets and comics.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Out of several poets and comics. 'It will but little avail thee, to turn thine anger and indignation upon the things themselves that have fallen across unto thee. For as for them, they are not sensibl", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_72551ddc810d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 7.3: That which most men would think themselves most happy for, and would prefer b...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That which most men would think themselves most happy for, and would prefer before all things, if the Gods would grant it unto them after their deaths, thou mayst whilst thou livest grant unto thyself", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_4ffad89036ff", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations 12.6: Let these be the objects of thy ordinary meditation: to consider, what manner...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let these be the objects of thy ordinary meditation: to consider, what manner of men both for soul and body we ought to be, whensoever death shall surprise us: the shortness of this our mortal life: t", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170)", "readable": false, "generated": false}]}