| Title: | Judicious |
| Original Title: | Judicieux |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 9 (1765), p. 4 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Nelly S. Hoyt; Thomas Cassirer |
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Grammar
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| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
| Source: | Nelly S. Hoyt and Thomas Cassirer, trans., The Encyclopedia: Selections: Diderot, d'Alembert and a Society of Men of Letters (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965). |
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Judicious." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Nelly S. Hoyt and Thomas Cassirer. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.173>. Trans. of "Judicieux," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 9. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Judicious." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Nelly S. Hoyt and Thomas Cassirer. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.173 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Judicieux," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 9:4 (Paris, 1765). |
Judicious. That which gives evidence of judgment, experience, and good sense. One is more likely to hear something clever and subtle than something sensible and judicious. It is important to appeal only to judicious men: their authority will bring approval from one's contemporaries and their judgment will be ratified by the generations that follow. A clever sally amuses in conversation, but only a judicious expression will endure in writing.