quotes about Prudence
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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
-- Adam Smith -
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
-- Amos Bronson AlcottSource : "Orphic Sayings: XXVIII. Prudence". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. July 1840.
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There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
-- Aristotle -
If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.
-- Decimius Magnus Ausonius -
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
-- Fay Weldon -
Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
-- John Milton -
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
-- Joseph Joubert -
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
-- Lech Walesa -
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
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I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.
-- Pierre Bayle -
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
-- Richard Brinsley SheridanSource : Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.77
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Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
-- Robert LowthSource : Robert Lowth, Rev. Peter HALL (1834). “Sermons, and other remains, ... now first collected and arranged, ... with an introductory memoir by ... P. Hall, etc. (P. Barton's sermon at the consecration of Bishop Lowth.).”, p.477
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The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
-- Walter Savage Landor