Achieve Quote by Aristotle

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

— John Milton

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

— Mason Cooley

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what…

— Aristotle

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim…

— Aristotle

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

— Jeremy Collier

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

— Henry Fielding

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

— Samuel Johnson

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in…

— Aristotle

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage;…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

— Thomas Hobbes