Discretion
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discreet · discretion · control of her appetite · indiscreet · wise
in the texts
Cyropaedia
Practical wisdom or chastened judgment that makes virtues, friends, and servants useful.
What, have you never observed, Cyrus, said he, that when a man indiscreetly ventures to fight a stronger man than himself and has been worsted, he is instantly cured of his indiscretion toward that particular man?
Cyrus answered, that in one day’s time your father has become discreet when he was indiscreet before?
To what defeat of your father’s do you refer, said Cyrus, that you are so confident that he has been brought to discretion by it?
Economics
Self-governing moderation, especially in appetite and household conduct, understood as necessary for preserving goods and virtue.
to have the power of rewarding the discreet and useful members of your household, and of punishing anyone who turns out to be a rogue.
But discretion both in a man and a woman, means acting in such a manner that their possessions shall be in the best condition possible, and that as much as possible shall be added to them by fair and honourable means.
For in control of her appetite, Socrates, she had been excellently trained;