Prudence Quotes
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Virtues cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.
Aristotle
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For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.
John Calvin
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The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.
Rene Descartes
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
Victor Hugo
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Prudence replaces strength by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
Thomas Hobbes
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I am sure that in the next weeks and at the end of the electoral race prudence and the fundamental unity of the Mexicans will prevail at the slightest hint of intolerance or illegality.
Ernesto Zedillo
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end
Edward Whymper
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
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Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
William Fleming
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
Thomas Carlyle
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We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.
Marcel Proust
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
Seneca the Younger
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Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.
George Washington
