CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

— Victor Hugo

“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”

— Victor Hugo

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

— Anonymous

Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the…

— Lajos Kossuth

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

— Victor Hugo

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

— Luc de Clapiers

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

— Knut Hamsun

“[Fiscal prudence] means spending wisely, reducing waste, collecting sufficient taxes to pay for the public goods and services we want, keeping budgets in relative…

— Alex Himelfarb

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

— Francis Bacon

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

— Edmund Burke

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides

I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast…

— Roger Ross Williams

Fiscal prudence is very important.

— Smriti Irani