Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
“Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you… — Henry V. O'Neil Copy Share Image
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“There are a thousand circumstances in which a man may be justified in a particular course of action, and that course yet… — James Malcolm Rymer Copy Share Image
“We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
“ I will not be a slut. I will not be a slut. Oh, I want so badly to be a slut.… — Seraphina Donavan Copy Share Image
Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men,… — James Harrington Copy Share Image
People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“The look of good sense and prudence, even of the best kind, differs from that of genius, in that the former bears… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead… — Mary Cholmondeley Copy Share Image
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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![“The look of good sense and prudence, even of the best kind, differs from that of genius, in that the former bears the stamp of subjection to the will, while the latter is free from it. And therefore one can well believe the anecdote [...] how once at the court of the Visconti, when Petrarch and…” quote by Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37b/arthur-schopenhauer-226_hegel-s-face_the-look-of-good-sense-and-prudence-even_196158.jpg)
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