The conventional meaning of prudence is to exercise sound judgement in practical affairs. It is considered to be a Virtue, and is often said to be the behavior associated with wisdom.
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able to scrape up.' I, in my astonishment, said, 'Fifty-five.html">five francs!
as for the hundred francs you asked me to give you, it's not
know who you are.' Then he showed me a letter.html">letter.html">letter, or rather a dirty rag
certain spot.html">spot, on pain of having his house burned and his cows killed
to forge my signature! What annoyed me most was that the letter was
every prize at the university! I began by giving my rascal a cuff that
blackguard that you are!' I said, and I gave him a hearty kick, you
take the money.html">money to the spot mentioned in the letter?' 'This very day.'
and the place had been exactly described. He brought the money, buried
myself close by. There I stayed, with my man, for six.html">six mortal hours, M.
the end of six hours a /Bastiaccio/, a vile money-lender, made his
aimed so well that, as he fell, his head dropped upon the coins he was
and never dare to suspect Giocanto Castriconi of a mean trick again!'
"The poor devil, all of a tremble, picked up his sixty-five.
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