Christian prudence consists in judging, speaking, and acting in the way that the Eternal Wisdom, clothed in our flesh, judged, spoke, and acted, and in guiding ourselves in all cases according to the maxims of faith, never according to the fallacious sentiments of the world, or the weak light of our own intellect. Human prudence, which is also called the prudence of the flesh and of the world, is that which has no other aim than what is temporal, thinks only of arriving at its end, and makes use of such methods and sentiments alone as are human.
Saint Vincent de Paul
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