“At court you must say less than you think and only speak as much of the truth as will do you good.” — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been, - how eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
“Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers” — Confucius Copy Share Image
Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
“...it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.” — DESCARTES Copy Share Image
“...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“In politics there are no perfectly safe courses; prudence consists in choosing the least dangerous ones.” — Waxkeep Publishing Copy Share Image
Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit — Jonathan Swif Copy Share Image
We should use prudence when making decisions as to what is best for us, our families and our communities based on the… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
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