A less confrontational vision of scientific discovery is proposed by Adloff He suggests that hindsight criticism of the early publications should be mitigated by the nascent state of radiochemistry, highlights the prudence of Debierne's claims in the original papers, and notes that nobody can contend that Debierne's substance did not contain actinium.

While Christianity sees modesty as a virtue and pride as sinful, Machiavelli took a more classical position, seeing ambition, spiritedness, and the pursuit of glory as good and natural things, and part of the virtue and prudence that good princes should have.

Therefore, while it was traditional to say that leaders should have virtues, especially prudence, Machiavelli's use of the words virtù and prudenza was unusual for his time, implying a spirited and immodest ambition.

The rule of prudence meant that gains should not be anticipated unless their realisation was highly probable.

That great men should develop and use their virtue and prudence was a traditional theme of advice to Christian princes.

One should not “ enjoy the benefit of time ” but rather the benefit of one's virtue and prudence, because time can bring evil as well as good.

If Mr. Elliott had therefore only had the prudence to wait where the excursion train stopped near the top of the bank and to send back one of the guards to protect his train, with instructions to ask the driver of the ordinary train to help the excursion train up the short remaining distance, he would hardly have lost time and would, besides, have avoided the risk inseparable from the delicate operation he unwisely determined to carry out and which should have been resorted to under only most exceptional circumstances and not, as in the present case, where there was so easy a solution of the difficulty.

The usual argument against deficit spending, dating to Adam Smith, is that households should not run deficits – one should have money before one spends it, from prudence – and that what is correct for a household is correct for a nation and its government.

He judged it “ incredible that any Government of ordinary prudence should at a moment of civil war gratuitously increase the number of its enemies, and, moreover, incur the hostility of so formidable a power as England .” In the debate in Parliament on June 21 there was general opposition to reinforcements, based on political, military, and economic arguments.

In ascertaining that figure, consideration should be given to all matters that might be brought forward and reasonably be given substantial weight in bargaining by persons of ordinary prudence, but no consideration whatever should be given to matters not affecting market value.

), I should have no hesitation in defining them: that temperance is love giving itself entirely to that which is loved ; fortitude is love readily bearing all things for the sake of the loved object ; justice is love serving only the loved object, and therefore ruling rightly ; prudence is love distinguishing with sagacity between what hinders it and what helps it.

* Principle of prudence: This principle aims at showing the reality " as is ": one should not try to make things look prettier than they are.

In his first letter On the happy increase of the Society ( 25 July 1581 ), he treats of the necessary qualifications for superiors, and points out that government should be directed not by the maxims of human wisdom but by those of supernatural prudence.

In 1601, the earl was sent as envoy to London ; here Elizabeth I assured him that James should be her successor, and his mission was conducted with tact and prudence.

" If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.

Further, the wisdom and prudence of certain decisions of procurement have been publicly questioned.

During all that time, mankind have been learning by experience the tendencies of actions ; on which experience all the prudence, as well as all the morality of life, are dependent … It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones.

Although prudence would be applied to any such judgment, the more difficult tasks, which distinguish a person as prudent, are those in which various goods have to be weighed against each other, as when a person is determining what would be best to give charitable donations, or how to punish a child so as to prevent repeating an offense.

However, recent developments in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles have led academic critics to accuse the international standard-setting body IASB of abandoning prudence.

They also concluded that Peterson was not given adequate warnings about the weather conditions of his route, which, given his known limitations, might have caused him to postpone the flight out of prudence.

According to the account, the Sabine habits of belligerence ( aggressive or warlike behavior ) and frugality ( prudence in avoiding waste ) were known to have derived from the Spartans.

Machiavelli argues that fortune is only the judge of half of our actions and that we have control over the other half with " sweat ", prudence and virtue.

And, as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words and especially that skill of proceeding upon general and infallible rules called science, which very few have and but in few things, as being not a native faculty born with us, nor attained, as prudence, while we look after somewhat else, I find yet a greater equality amongst men than that of strength.

Pamela was entrusted with all her husband's secrets and took an active part in furthering his designs ; and she appears to have fully deserved the confidence placed in her, though there is reason to suppose that at times she counselled prudence.

The counsels of prudence ( or rules of prudence ) are attained a priori ( unlike the rules of skill which are attained via experience, or a posteriori ) and have universal goals such as happiness.

" The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement ; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions ; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it.

It may have been taken up from there into catholic philosophy ; Wisdom 8: 7 reads, " She teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.

This principle mitigates the principle of prudence: assets do not have to be accounted at their disposable value, but it is accepted that they are at their historical value ( see depreciation and going concern ).

We, therefore, because of your qualities of prudence, justice and worthiness of government, take you under St. Peter ’ s and our own protection, and grant and confirm by apostolic authority to your excellent domain, the kingdom of Portugal, full honours of kingdom and the dignity which corresponds to kings, as well as all places which, with the help of the celestial grace, you have wrested from the hands of the Saracens, and on which your neighbouring Christian princes may not claim any rights.

She tends to lack in prudence, and ever willing to have fun.

In the Anticlaudianus he sums up as follows: Reason, guided by prudence, can unaided discover most of the truths of the physical order ; for the apprehension of religious truths it must trust to faith.

While he vied with any man in industry, prudence, wisdom, and courage, he excelled most men in simplicity of tastes, constancy of attachments, kindly playfulness, magnanimity, and mercy.

The reason is that injustice is most difficult to deal with when furnished with weapons, and the weapons a human being has are meant by nature to go along with prudence and virtue, but it is only too possible to turn them to contrary uses.

: For example, regarding what are the most important virtues, Aristotle proposed the nine listed earlier ( just above Historical origins ): wisdom ; prudence ; justice ; fortitude ; courage ; liberality ; magnificence ; magnanimity ; temperance.

As recorded by Irwin: “ twenty is not the age at which prudence is most to be expected.

A man of nautical knowledge inferior to none, in zeal prudence and energy, superior to most.

The most striking qualities of the Basilian Rule are its prudence and its wisdom.

What makes the episode most interesting is that its rhetoric casts doubt on the completeness of Redcross's recovery from " unwonted lust " ( 1. 1. 49 ) as well as on the success with which he manages to persuade himself that in his prudence and magnanimity he has really risen above it all.

With regard to new questions, which modern culture and progress have brought to the foreground, let them engage in most careful research, but with the necessary prudence and caution ; finally, let them not think, indulging in a false " irenism ," that the dissident and the erring can happily be brought back to the bosom of the Church, if the whole truth found in the Church is not sincerely taught to all without corruption or diminution.

The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries ( CENTR ), which represents the Internet registries of 39 countries, rejected the increase, accusing ICANN of a lack of financial prudence and criticizing what it describes as ICANN's " unrealistic political and operational targets ".

Very little research exists on the topic of what factors foster or inhibit prudence.

" Regarding what the virtues are, Thomas ascertained the cardinal virtues to be prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude.

" We may grasp the nature of prudence if we consider what sort of people we call prudent.

prudence cannot be science or art ; not science because what can be done is a variable ( it may be done in different ways, or not done at all ), and not art because action and production are generically different.

The test of a Book, considered Guide in time and space coupled with lofty declaration as void of conjectural substance, is that a reader like me of ordinary prudence be not confused / perplexed in perceiving what is stated ; otherwise he might loose interest in the Book.

Fitzwilliam was chosen to open the debate on the address at the opening of the next session of Parliament in 1786, and said that " The wisdom of Ireland had accomplished what the prudence of this country could not achieve ".

Lord Crawford declared him to be of gentle birth, but the old soldier having resigned his pretensions to his nephew, King Louis vouched for Quentin's services and prudence, and the duke being satisfied as to his descent, remarked that it only remained to inquire what were the fair lady's sentiments towards the young emigrant in search of honourable adventure, and who, by his sense, firmness and gallantry, thus became the fortunate possessor of wealth, rank and beauty.

) As Justice Holmes classic statement expresses it, " What usually is done may be evidence of what ought to be done, but what ought to be done is fixed by a standard of reasonable prudence, whether it is complied with or not.

Agnellus and his followers soon became known for their humble manner, extreme prudence, and desire for no material items but what was necessary to survive.