Diligence
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
diligence · careful · due care and caution · serviceable · spare no effort
in the texts
Nicocles or the Cyprians
Careful, energetic performance of assigned tasks and service to the king and state.
You could, therefore, well afford, for the sake of blessings so great, to spare no effort and even to undergo all manner of toil and peril;
I declare it to be the duty of each one of you to perform whatever tasks you are assigned with diligence and justice for if you fall short in either of these qualities, your conduct must needs suffer by that defect.
for those of you who make themselves most serviceable to my interests will most advance the interests of their own households.
The Law of Torts
The standard of care whose absence constitutes negligence, described as the diligence of a reasonable man.
It will be remembered that the general duty of diligence includes the particular duty of competence in cases where the matter taken in hand is of a sort requiring more than the knowledge or ability which any prudent man may be expected to have.
Due care and caution, as we have seen, is the diligence of a reasonable man, and includes reasonable competence in cases where special competence is needful to ensure safety.
Negligence is the contrary of diligence, and no one describes diligence as a state of mind.