Ложной формой этой добродетели является хитрость (astutia).

Благоразу́мие — качество личности, группы, позволяющее выбирать правильные средства, и действовать сообразно c целью достижения собственного блага, счастья. У Платона принадлежит к одной из кардинальных добродетелей, относится к одной из семи добродетелей.

Тициан: Исходя из прошлого человек действует благоразумно в настоящем, дабы не повредить будущему.

Благоразумие в отличие от мудрости (научного знания и познания сущности вещей с помощью разума) имеет практическую направленность на человеческое благо и принятие решений для его претворения в жизнь.

Одним из первых о благоразумии (prudentia) говорит Цицерон, различая в ней память (memoria), понятливость (intelligentia) и предусмотрительность (providentia).

В Сумме теологии, Фомы Аквинского благоразумие (prudentia) синонимично рассудительности (антонимом благоразумия является imprudentia, безрассудство).

Сущностным атрибутом этой добродетели ( благоразумия ) является способность производить разумный выбор.

Элементом благоразумия является бдительность (circumspectio) и предосторожность (cautio).

Поскольку благоразумие направлено на достижение блага, то эта добродетель необходимо должна быть свойственна правителям, которые опираются на закон (ср. prudentia и юриспруденция).

Whether it's golf or writing, you have friends, and then you have 'friends' friends. Friends who are like family. I can count my close friends on two hands, which is good, I think. That's a lot. Some are at home in Spain, others are elsewhere, and some are in golf.

I smoke as much as I want and chew tobacco a good deal of the time. I don't pay any attention to the rules for keeping in physical condition. I think they are a lot of bunk. The less you worry about the effect of tea and coffee on the lining of your stomach, the longer you will live, and the happier you will be.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

We've got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we're going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us in the world.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

There is no point in using the word impossible to describe something that has clearly happened.

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.

No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.

A final comfort that is small but not cold The heart is the only broken instrument that works.

There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.

Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

A beautiful woman delights the eye a wise woman the understanding a pure one the soul.

I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.