A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
Interpretation
Individuals need to balance their personal self with their social persona.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that a person has both a private side and a public side, and it is essential to navigate between these two aspects of one's identity. The 'horses' symbolize the differing roles and responsibilities that a person has in their personal life versus societal expectations, emphasizing the importance of harmonizing these elements to live a fulfilling life.
In practice
During a keynote speech about personal branding in professional environments.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.
The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.
Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.
How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?
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