He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here… — Catherine McAuley Copy Share Image
What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life is in favor of those who are blessed with emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence, and positive behavior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to… — Lajos Kossuth 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
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
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
Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Prudence He does well who moors his boat with two anchors. PUBLILIUS SYRUS” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract. by this, and only this, we have… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.' — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
![“[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/134/aristotle-78_add_the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudenc_3029435.png)
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