Character Quote by A.C. Grayling

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

— Jeremy Collier

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

— Mason Cooley

“Heroes, however, have a habit of ending up dead or bankrupt, and, as you know better than anyone, I have much to lose. At…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

— John Milton

Good nature without prudence, is foolishness

— Proverb

“The king takes a deep ragged breath. He's been shouting. Now – and it's a narrow thing – he decides to laugh. ‘You advocate…

— Hilary Mantel

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

— Benjamin Franklin

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are…

— Henry Fielding

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith