It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.” — George Washington Copy Share Image
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware,… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all… — Thomas Merton 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
“ 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
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
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
Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Large houses are still occupied, while spinners’ and weavers’ cottages stand empty, because the families that once filled them are obliged to… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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