A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

Max Lucado

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

Jeremy Collier

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

Samuel Johnson

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Adam Smith

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

Bernard de Mandeville

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

Paul Krugman

Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

Mason Cooley

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

Oh, I don't know. I prefer to think that when they're at home, the Silent Brothers are much like us. Playing practical jokes in the Silent City, making toasted cheese-" "I hope they play charades," said Tessa Dryly. "It would seem to take advantage of their natural talents.

Cassandra Clare

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

Mason Cooley

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

Homer

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

Samuel Johnson

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.