Prudence Quotes
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Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty - these are Christian values.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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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.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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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.
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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.
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Love prudence.
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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.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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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.
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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.
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Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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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
