At three hours after sunrise I expect Aristarchus--and for work too.

Put out the manuscripts that I brought.

Is the Eunuch Eulaeus waiting in the anteroom?
Yes--so much the better! "Now we are alone, my wise friends Hierax and Komanus, and I must explain to you that on this occasion, out of pure prudence, you seem to me to have been anything rather than prudent.

To be prudent is to have the command of a wide circle of thought, so that what is close at hand is no more an obstacle than what is remote.

The narrow mind can command only that which lies close under observation; the fool and visionary only that which is far off.