Prudence Quotes
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas Hobbes
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I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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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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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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Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
Thomas Hobbes
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In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
William Hazlitt
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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 reproaches; conscience accuses.
Immanuel Kant
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake
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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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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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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
William Hazlitt
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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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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
Jane Austen
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
Thomas Carlyle
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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
