Enrichment, burnable poison, and self-poisoning

 "Difficulty shows what men are.  Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.  Why?  So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat." - Epictetus

Jefferson Mystery Clocks

 Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou hast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest." - Marcus Aurelius

Shop Bathroom Water Heater

 "Confine yourself to the present" - Marcus Aurelius

Determining the charge of an electron

 "Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way.  Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension." - Marcus Aurelius

Mid-August

 "Freedom is the only worthy goal in life.  It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control" - Epictetus

Fossil, Nuclear and Green

 "He who intends to introduce a new law, should do it with a rope about his neck, in order that he might be immediately strangled, unless he could change the ancient constitution of the polity, to the very great advantage of his community." - Hierocles

Fire in the hole!

 I've had a lot of bosses who could stand to follow today's stoic quote.  Those bosses are a large part of the reason that I am interested in stoic philosophy.

"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others.  You shun slavery - beware enslaving others.  If you can endure to do that, one would think that you had been once upon a time a slave yourself.  For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor freedom with slavery." - Epictetus (born a slave, disabled, and later banished from Rome along with all philosophers by emperor Domitian)

Tough brake

 "The first step:  Don't be anxious.  Nature controls all.  And before long, you'll be no one, nowhere - like Hadrian, like Augustus."

"The second step:  Concentrate on what you have to do.  Fix your eyes on it.  Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people."

"Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it."

"But with kindness.  With humility.  Without hypocrisy." - Marcus Aurelius

In memoriam - Sparkles

 "Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just" - Marcus  Aurelius

So much for June!

 "It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amidst abundance." - Epictetus