Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“It is prudent to analyze the dynamics of innovations and its sustainable transition.” — Jonathan Tetteh-Cole Copy Share Image
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Heroes, however, have a habit of ending up dead or bankrupt, and, as you know better than anyone, I have much to… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do… — George Chuvalo Copy Share Image
The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
“Fiscal prudence, leaving cheaply, self-sufficiency, being close to nature, contenting oneself with simple pleasures, asceticism, routine, and aesthetic austerity: these are the… — Emrys Westacott Copy Share Image
If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Thus was this expedition finished, when it had lasted 3 years and 9 months after having, by its event, strongly evinced this… — Admiral George Anson Copy Share Image
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
“[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Nasty political correctness as a tactic then makes perfect sense. Having rejected reason, we will not expect ourselves or others to behave… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge” (Proverbs 18:15). We see again this theme… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Prudence versus passion is a conflict that runs through history.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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