[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“At court you must say less than you think and only speak as much of the truth as will do you good.” — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“that prudence of yours makes you veer about, determined not to commit yourself to either side, but to pass safely between Scylla… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers” — Confucius Copy Share Image
Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided… — Susan Juby Copy Share Image
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from… — Origen Copy Share Image
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity. — Horace Copy Share Image
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their… — James Brady Copy Share Image
“Prudence Katherine Pierce-Keller, time-traveling ninja.” “Oh, ho… funny.” I laughed and then faked an angry look. “Lawrence Alma Coleman the Third clearly… — Rysa Walker Copy Share Image
A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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