Diminish Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Jeremy Collier

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 virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

— Thomas Hobbes

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

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

— David A. Bednar

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

— John Milton

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.

— Tehyi Hsieh