Do not limp before the lame. [Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.] — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. — Democritus Copy Share Image
“When it seems the gods demand a sacrifice, patience and prudence always promote a well-thought stronger response over an in-the-moment reaction.” — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Those that earn serendipity see what others don't, do what others won't and keep pushing when prudence says quit.” — Glenn Llopis Copy Share Image
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Prudence's flat was in the kind of block where Jane imagined people might be found dead, though she had never said this… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The king takes a deep ragged breath. He's been shouting. Now – and it's a narrow thing – he decides to laugh.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose. … It produces a well-regulated mind; it gives… — Jake Desyllas Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Epicurus is right, that happiness is up at auction all the time, and sold in lots to suit the purchaser whenever he… — William De Witt Hyde Copy Share Image
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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