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

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).

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

Ложной формой этой добродетели является хитрость (astutia).

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

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

If you be sick your own thoughts make you sick

And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

I'm such a romantic at heart.

We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.

It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

Every head is a world.

Women's fashion is more interesting than men's.

So let your heart sweetheart be your compass when youre lost and you should follow it wherever it may go.

Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass...Its about learning to dance in the rain.

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

Eating right and taking the time to slow down and plan in the morning is crucial to a productive day.

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death.

The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh.