Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people , only qualified by fear… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the… — Edward Whymper Copy Share Image
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from… — Origen Copy Share Image
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their… — James Brady Copy Share Image
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Prudence Katherine Pierce-Keller, time-traveling ninja.” “Oh, ho… funny.” I laughed and then faked an angry look. “Lawrence Alma Coleman the Third clearly… — Rysa Walker Copy Share Image
A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture… — Aesop Copy Share Image
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
“Patience is as important as prelude & love-play for a woman and prudence is as important as sexual union for a man.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
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