Affair Quote by Warren Buffett

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that…

— Jane Austen

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— John Milton

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

— Jeremy Collier

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions…

— Aristotle

Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Thomas Hobbes

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The only prudence in life is concentration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Mason Cooley