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)
"What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?
For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years are behind us are in death's hands." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can.
Associate with those who will make a better man of you.
Welcome those whom you yourself can improve.
The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path - he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You must also show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it to him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity." - Epictetus
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway
"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"War imposes suffering on everyone. The difference is that the winner suffers less than the vanquished." - me
"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think." - Marcus Aurelius
"Think of the universal substance, of which thou hast a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art." - Marcus Aurelius
"Never value anything profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect others, to curse, to be a hypocrite, to desire anything that requires walls and curtains to hide." - Marcus Aurelius
