#prudent

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook. Even so, I think there is some virtue in eagerness, whether its object prove true or false. How utterly dull would be a wholly prudent man, or trout, or world!

As the Scriptures say...

Prudent

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

Il fallait se montrer prudent, il fallait se montrer malin. Car par le discernement, on pouvait attraper une chose lointaine et l'attirer à soi.