PRUDENCE
Diogenes was a renowned pagan thinker of Greece. One day he set up a tent in the market- place of Athens with a sign which read “Wisdom sold here.” One of the citizens laughed at the idea, and sent a servant with twelve cents in Greek money, saying: “Go and ask that braggart how much wisdom he will let you have for twelve cents.” When the servant delivered the money and message to Diogenes, the latter answered: “Tell this to your master: ‘In all your actions look to the end.'” When the servant brought home this message, his master was so pleased with it, that he had the words painted in gold over the entrance of his house so that he and everyone else entering his house might be reminded of the end of life. Even the mere natural virtue seemed to him so valuable. In I Peter 4:4 we read “Be prudent therefore and watchful in prayers.” Arthur Tonne, Lent And The…
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