Character Quote by Josef Pieper

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

— Mason Cooley

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

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

— Jeremy Collier

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

— Samuel Johnson

The only prudence in life is concentration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it…

— Joseph Addison

[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

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

— Joseph Joubert

“Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

— Angela of Foligno

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming

“Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.”

— John Steinbeck