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

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.

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).

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).

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Technology has transformed how we live, learn and work, but not everyone has been able to participate in these developments.

I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.

When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically andor sexually abused by a dating partner.

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude have a positive effect on our long term moods. The key to the happy life it seems is the good life a life with sustained relationships challenging work and connections to community.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.

I don't have memorabilia but try to take a bit of wardrobe, usually because they dress me better than I dress myself.