Book 7
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There is also a resemblance between the unrestrained man and the profligate, though they are really distinct: both pursue bodily pleasures, but the profligate thinks it right to do so, the man who lacks self-restraint does not.
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Again, the same person cannot be at once unrestrained and prudent, for it has been shownCf. 6.13.6. that Prudence is inseparable from Moral Virtue.
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Also, Prudence does not consist only in knowing what is right, but also in doing it; but the unrestrained man does not do the right.This parenthesis would come better before the preceding sentence. (Cleverness on the other hand is not incompatible with Unrestraint—which is why it is sometimes thought that some people are prudent and yet unrestrained—because Cleverness differs from Prudence in the manner explained in our first discourseCf. 6.12.9.: as being intellectual facultiesOr perhaps, with the Aldine scholiast, in definition. they are closely akin, but they differ in that Prudence involves deliberate choice.)
