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Last updated on November 20, 2024.
No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
[Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
[Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.
What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
Prudence dictates that there should be a balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.
Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
New Hampshire has always shown prudence and responsibility in its application of the death penalty.
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
One has no protecting power save prudence.
[Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.
I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
We accomplish more by prudence than by force.
[Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.
Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
