Prudence

(also called Practical Wisdom).— The intellectual and cardinal virtue by which one makes the right decisions about what is to be done in concrete situations (“right reason about things to be done”). Insofar as it concerns itself with the will it is also regarded, in a sense, as a moral virtue.  

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