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Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion? (Prudence Quotes)
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front (Prudence Quotes)
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win (Prudence Quotes)
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything (Prudence Quotes)
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble (Prudence Quotes)
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence (Prudence Quotes)
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts (Prudence Quotes)
A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house (Prudence Quotes)
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life’s ills (Prudence Quotes)
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear (Prudence Quotes)
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great (Prudence Quotes)
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 (Prudence Quotes)
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself (Prudence Quotes)
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place (Prudence Quotes)
The bounds of a man’s knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence (Prudence Quotes)
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all (Prudence Quotes)
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning (Prudence Quotes)
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause (Prudence Quotes)
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool (Prudence Quotes)
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates (Prudence Quotes)
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him (Prudence Quotes)
I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness (Prudence Quotes)
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt (Prudence Quotes)
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise? (Prudence Quotes)
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years (Prudence Quotes)
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs (Prudence Quotes)
It’s a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market (Prudence Quotes)
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry (Prudence Quotes)
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism (Prudence Quotes)
You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him (Prudence Quotes)