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Prudence Quotes

1.
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
Thomas Hobbes

Authors on Prudence Quotes: Marcus Tullius Cicero Juvenal Ralph Waldo Emerson Baltasar Gracian Samuel Johnson John Heywood Charles Caleb Colton Oliver Goldsmith Publilius Syrus Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mason Cooley Benjamin Franklin Miguel de Cervantes Immanuel Kant Seneca the Younger Luc de Clapiers Ovid Walter Raleigh Joseph Joubert Richard Brinsley Sheridan Bernard de Mandeville Jean de La Fontaine Walter Savage Landor Robert Lowth Pierre Bayle Jean de la Bruyere Thomas Carlyle Lech Walesa William Hazlitt Jean Racine Amos Bronson Alcott Thomas Hobbes Francois Fenelon
2.
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3.
The only prudence in life is concentration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

4.
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Amos Bronson Alcott

5.
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
Juvenal

6.
Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
Mason Cooley

7.
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
Walter Raleigh

8.
Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
Immanuel Kant

9.
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

10.
Caution is the lower story of prudence.
Thomas Carlyle

11.
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
Immanuel Kant

12.
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.
Oliver Goldsmith

13.
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
Baltasar Gracian

14.
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Andre Gide

15.
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
Juvenal

16.
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
Baltasar Gracian

17.
Better is to bow than break.
John Heywood

18.
We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
Tacitus

19.
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
Miguel de Cervantes

20.
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

21.
There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
Aristotle

22.
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Robert Lowth

23.
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Charles Caleb Colton

24.
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
Lech Walesa

25.
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
Publilius Syrus

26.
The eye of prudence may never shut.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

27.
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
Francois Fenelon

28.
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought,
and those to be shunned.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

29.
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
William Hazlitt

30.
He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

31.
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
John Milton

32.
If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.
Decimius Magnus Ausonius

33.
I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.
Pierre Bayle

34.
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

35.
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat.,
Malo indisertam prudentiam,
quam loquacem stultitiam.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero

36.
One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
Juvenal

37.
Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.
Mason Cooley

38.
It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.
Ovid

39.
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
Walter Savage Landor

40.
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
Charles Caleb Colton

41.
Dine on little, and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes

42.
It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
John Heywood

43.
A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
Victor Hugo

44.
Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
Jean de La Fontaine

45.
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.
Jean de la Bruyere

46.
As love increases,
prudence diminishes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

47.
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
Luc de Clapiers

48.
He who has far to ride spares his horse.
Jean Racine

49.
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
Publilius Syrus

50.
A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
Thomas Jefferson