If we do not know what we should be pursuing, we can pursue the wrong thing. If we do not know the right way to go, we can end up lost along the way. Prudence is the virtue that safeguards us against these errors. Working with our intellect and our conscience, the virtue of prudence applies moral and logical principles to whatever situation we face, so that we may reason and act rightly.

Justice disposes us to respect the rights and dignity of each human being. So much evil in the world involves someone lacking some good they ought to have: theft robs one of their due property; kidnapping robs one of their freedom; murder robs one of their life. Justice wishes for each person to have what is their due, so that none may lack the goods they ought to have. To judge each honestly, to respect the rights and dignity of all, and to seek the common good: these are the works of justice.

We so often fall into a trap of fear: either we are too afraid to act, or we recklessly ignore fear and act rashly. Courage (also known as Fortitude) is the strength to acknowledge fear but choose to act rationally in the face of it, letting neither fear nor a reckless abandonment of fear take hold of your actions.

Following our desires without question may feel satisfying at first, but we quickly realize that they ultimately lead us away from the happiness we seek; we form addictions, finding ourselves slaves to our desires, always shackled to what we desire in the moment, unable to rationally plan for what is best. Temperance does not deny or reject all desires; rather, it moderates them, so that we attain mastery over them and can freely choose to enjoy them in the best way possible.

Eating well is a subset of the virtue of Temperance, moderating one's desire for food with one's nutritional needs. By learning about nutrition and gradually improving our diet over time to match nutritional science recommendations for health, we can avoid developing a vice of gluttony and instead grow in health and overall fitness.

Like our eating habits, our exercise habits are part of the virtue of Temperance, moderating our health and fitness. By aligning our exercise habits to satisfy fitness science recommendations, we can help our body to flourish and live longer and healthier, while also avoiding vices of sloth in physical matters.

Honesty is not simply about telling the truth, but about a disposition towards speaking truthfully, avoiding deception, and loving the truth instead of fearing it.

Sexual desire is a natural and good part of human life, but some may feel their engagement with sex is unbalanced. Whether it be a reliance on pornography, dependency on sex, or some other concern, it's possible for our habits regarding sex to spiral into a vicious cycle that harms ourselves and others. The virtue of chastity helps one gain freedom from an over-reliance on sexual pleasure, allowing us to balance our engagement with such desires.

Consider those less fortunate with a generous heart. When you have a surplus, whether of money or of time or other resources, giving those to others both helps you avoid vices of greed and self-centeredness while also lifting up your neighbor in their own journey.

The world can seem overcome with evil and annoyances at times, but none of them should have power over the virtuous heart. If we truly seek to live a fulfilling life, ought a minor inconvenience be enough to disturb it? If we take every inconvenience as an opportunity in disguise, and every evil as a sacrifice we can offer along this journey towards virtue, we can learn how to have a peaceful and joyful heart even amidst a world of evils and annoyances around us.

Learning another language can be overwhelming and intimidating, but like other virtues, we can develop fluency in another language through many small daily choices to study. Here we provide plans to help learn specific languages, as well as a generalized approach for language-learning in general.