Prudent Quotes
188 quotes by 155 authors
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
— Joseph Addison
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
— Pearl S. Buck
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— Edmund Burke
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
— James Madison
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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
— Sun Tzu
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth…
— Pope John XXIII
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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own,…
— Thomas a Kempis
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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.
— Martin Luther
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Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.
— Democritus
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Chance generally favors the prudent.
— Joseph Joubert
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
— Robert Burns
Who Wrote These Prudent Quotes
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