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- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. — Joseph Addison
- The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. — Pearl S. Buck
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison
- A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. — Sun Tzu
- Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. — Jean de La Fontaine
- Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not… — Pope John XXIII
- The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton