Choose a topic from Part 2B:
1. Prudence suffuses all the moral virtues. Hence theprecepts of the Decalogue, that is, the Ten Commandments, whichdirect virtuous acts, are all implicitly precepts of prudence.
2. Even the Old Law has definite precepts against falseprudence- craftiness and allied vices-and thus, indirectly,expresses precepts of prudence.
"It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides.
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Thomas á Kempis
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"Men should often renew their good resolutions, and not lose heart because they are tempted against them."
St Philip Neri
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"God commands not impossibilities, but by commanding he suggests to you to do what you can, to ask for what is beyond your strength; and he helps you, that you may be able."
St Augustine
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