Also an ignorant crowd without a thought and head ( as a proverb says ) cannot by any means possess such prudence, while the senate, composed of men distinguished by virtue, prudence, and glory of accomplished deeds is capable from its middle position, as if from an observation point, of caring for the common weal of the state, perceiving those matters which are beneficial, and freeing it from disturbances, rebellions, and dangers.

His prudence is expressed in his perpetual unwillingness to do things which I cannot undo.

The principle of prudence that is so popular in matters relating to the environment and to medical research cannot be transposed to this case.

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

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.

However, when a national trade imbalance expands beyond prudence ( generally thought to be several percent of GDP, for several years ), adjustments tend to occur.

According to accounts, by the time he reached adulthood, his virtues exerted themselves, and his slowness was revealed to be a symptom of his energy, passion, prudence, and firmness.

He also considered prudence an important virtue and perceived excess and overindulgence to be contrary to the attainment of ataraxia and aponia.

" Compare this with the beginning of the Confucian classic " Great Learning " which begins with " The Way of learning to be great consists in manifesting the clear character, loving the people, and abiding in the highest good " one can clearly see the correlation with the Roman virtue prudence especially if one transliterates clear character as clear conscience.

Although prudence itself does not perform any actions, and is concerned solely with knowledge, all virtues had to be regulated by it.

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.

It is the cause in the sense that the virtues, which are defined to be the " perfected ability " of man as a spiritual person ( spiritual personhood in the classical western understanding means having intelligence and free will ), achieve their " perfection " only when they are founded upon prudence, that is to say upon the perfected ability to make right decisions.

Judgments using reasons for evil ends or using evil means are considered to be made through " cunning " and " false prudence " and not through prudence.

The strength of the precautionary saving motive can be measured by absolute prudence, which is defined as

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

Precaution may be defined as " caution in advance ," " caution practised in the context of uncertainty ," or informed prudence.

The word prudonce ( prudence caution ) can also be used to allow restricted working to resume on that channel.

But in her search for political allies amongst the fractious Scottish nobility she took a fatal step, allowing good sense and prudence to be overruled by emotion and magnetism.

Even more unusual, rather than simply suggesting caution as a prudent way to try to avoid the worst of bad luck, Machiavelli holds that the greatest princes in history tend to be ones who take more risks, and rise to power through their own labour, virtue, prudence, and particularly by their ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Many of his friends were shocked at such open language, but as Fox said in his reply to a remonstrance from Grey: "... the truth is, I am gone something further in hate to the English Government than perhaps you and the rest of my friends are, and certainly further than can with prudence be avowed.

There is no room for prudence in revolutions whose fate and eventual success is always decided by boldness and raw courage … this is why Petőfi condemned his compatriots for the sin of opportunism and hesitation when faced with the great problems of their age … Petőfi's works must be regarded as the law of the Hungarian soul … and of the … love of the country ".

Aquinas also discussed conscience in relation to the virtue of prudence to explain why some people appear to be less " morally enlightened " than others, their weak will being incapable of adequately balancing their own needs with those of others.

He wrote three pamphlets against the engagement to be faithful to the Commonwealth, and proved that neither in conscience, law, nor prudence was he bound to pay the taxes which it imposed.

Depending on the jurisdiction, corporal punishment of children by parents or instructors may be a defense to trespass to the person, so long as the punishment was " reasonably necessary under the circumstances to discipline a child who has misbehaved " and the defendant " exercise prudence and restraint ".

Most campus buildings are red brick and can be characterized as utilitarian, a fitting style for the land-grant university work ethic and standards of fiduciary prudence.

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.

His lecture topics pertained to society, social change, science, technology, engineering, architecture, religion, prudence, semantics, anthropology, psychology, systems theory, and education, among other topics.

Some critics, however, questioned the prudence of placing part of Britain's national art treasures in a spot that is exposed to the full fury of the North Sea.

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.

The English term is based on the Latin word jurisprudentia: juris is the genitive form of jus meaning " law ", and prudentia means " prudence " ( also: discretion, foresight, forethought, circumspection ; refers to the exercise of good judgment, common sense, and even caution, especially in the conduct of practical matters ).

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.

Further prudence prevailed when the kingdoms were finally absorbed ; they were not absorbed into Wessex or greater Wessex but into England.

According to Thomas Aquinas, Among the cardinal virtues, prudence ranks first, justice second, fortitude third, temperance fourth, and after these the other virtues. Part of his justification for this hierarchy is that Fortitude without justice is an occasion of injustice ; since the stronger a man is the more ready is he to oppress the weaker.

With this language, prudence confers upon other virtues the form of its inner essence ; that is, its specific character as a virtue.

The prudence, steadiness, and vigilance of that man, joined to the greatest possible lenity in his character and his politics, preserved the crown to this royal family ; and with it, their laws and liberties to this country.

To the credit of the times of George Wishart — a glimpse of pre-reforming enlightenment — the explanation sufficed ; the young women escaped with their lives, and were even applauded for their prudence.

However Shiah did not see this as prudence ; they saw it as nepotism, and an attempt to rule like a king rather than as the first among equals.

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 fundamental virtue is goodness ; and from it proceed four cardinal virtues — prudence, courage, self-control, and justice ( φρόνησις, ἀνδρία, σωφροσύνη, δικαιοσύνη ) — as the four rivers proceeding from the river of Eden.

: 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.

" 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.

Elizabeth, whose prudence and parsimony were averse to so formidable an undertaking as the complete subjugation of the powerful Irish chief, desired peace with him at almost any price ; especially when the devastation of his territory by Sussex brought him no nearer to submission, after Shane's dramatic destruction of much of Sussex's withdrawing army at the Battle of the Red Sagums, 18 July 1561.

Another correspondent was William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire ; English translations by Thomas Hobbes of 45 letters to the Earl were published ( Hobbes acted as the Earl's secretary ), and it is now thought that these are jointly from Sarpi ( when alive ) and his close friend Fulgenzio Micanzio, something concealed at the time as a matter of prudence.

In none of these wars did he show superior genius, but he acted throughout with great prudence and extraordinary tenacity ; he was " le héros de la mauvaise fortune " (" hero of misfortune ")

In a letter of introduction to Franklin, Washington described Humphreys: " This gentleman was several years in my family as aide-de-camp -- his zeal in the cause of his country -- his good sense, prudence and attachment to me, rendered him dear to me ; and I persuade myself you will find no confidence which you may think proper to repose in him, misplaced.