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Exception should be made, however,for the case in which one is certain that by a secret admonition onecan correct the sinner and prevent the harm that threatens others. Give me a fewminutes. The mean of the practical virtue ofprudence, as regulating the moral virtues, is right reason, consideredas directive of the desires and conduct so as to avoid excess anddefect. (a) Thus, it is superior to the normalvirtues, for while they regulate actions by the inferior rule ofreason, charity regulates them by the supreme rule, which is GodHimself.

, to use the opinion that an informal will is valid, in order tosecure an inheritance, and at the same time to use the opinion that itis invalid, in order to escape the payment of legacies). (b) Material sin may be about to be committed against the natural ordivine law. If a manis not able to decide whether the Fourth Commandment obliges him tokeep his grandparents or mother-in-law in his home, when they ups These acts would not constitutemurder (i.