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«In public we say the race is to the strongest; in private we know that a lopsided man runs the fastest along the little side-hills of success»
«No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.»
«Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.»
Author: Epictetus | About: Character | Keywords: determine, in private, in public, model
«Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.»
«After all, in private we?re all misfits.»
«Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.»
«My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.»
«As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.»
«It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private»
«In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.»