An advertisement-free blog about motorcycling, Northern life, home improvement, power plants, submarines, nuclear stuff, and a few other off-beat subjects. Comments are welcome. (Image is the Selway Crags in Northern Idaho)
"God has entrusted me with myself."
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
"A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going." - Epictetus
"Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others' behavior shows how they are boring." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to be induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise to be induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun." - Epictetus
"The essence of philosophy (of stoicism) is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." - Epictetus
"Know you not, that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of doing it right?" - Epictetus
