Prudence

Moreover it would seem strange if Prudence, which is inferior to Wisdom, is nevertheless to have greater authority than Wisdom:

The reason is that Prudence includes a knowledge of particular facts, and this is derived from experience, which a young man does not a possess;

And Prudence is concerned with action, so one requires both forms of it, or indeed knowledge of particular facts even more than knowledge of general principles.

prudence is the managing of affairs according to the requirement of judgement (raʼy), and resolve is their execution at the time appointed for them.

And if necessity calls for open combat, after excuse has been given and warning served, let him rouse his resolve (ʻazm) for it and employ his prudence (ḥazm) in it, and let him set upon it after seeking God's guidance, following the religion and practising justice;

and if it comes from incapacity, you employ your prudence in it.

For there are none from whom a man of prudence would hope for greater things than those who can confer the greatest benefits, nor can he show his prudence more clearly than by pleasing them.

Thus by precept and by example alike he strove to increase in his companions Piety and Prudence.

In the first place, then, he tried to make his companions prudent towards the gods.

Since, then, as medicine is the art of health, steering of navigation, so prudence is the art of living, it is necessary that it too be established and proceed from some thing.

Since of these three some one is that by which nature is first moved either to seeking or to repelling, and nothing at all besides these three can be, it is necessary that the whole duty of fleeing or following be referred to some one of them, so that that prudence which we said is the art of life is concerned with some one of those three things, from which it draws the beginning of the whole life.

But it has been pretty well agreed among all that that in which prudence is concerned, and which it wishes to attain, ought to be fitted and accommodated to nature, and such that of itself it invites and allures the appetite of the mind, which the Greeks call horme.

And prudence, being of many parts, stretched through the whole world and through all human affairs, changes its name in each of them:

Philosophy, then, having partaken of a more excellent perception, as has been shown from the foregoing, partakes of prudence.

This power, then, we must acquire from Medea—that is, from prudence—and, having received it, thereafter despise all things.

it is manifestly a gift of the gods to the true votaries of prudence.