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Tag Name "Prudence" (178)

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
John Milton
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Prudence reproaches conscience accuses.
Immanuel Kant
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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.
Margaret of Valois
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson
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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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Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.
William Whewell
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed you can end love, but never moderate it.
Seneca the Younger
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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
Fay Weldon
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake
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Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
Mason Cooley
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Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.
Mason Cooley
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Prudence does not make people happy it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.
Mason Cooley
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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.
John Ortberg
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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
Immanuel Kant
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Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
Jeremy Collier
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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
Aristotle
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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.
Edmund Burke
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prudence, patience, labor, valor these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind I have no hope for conservation born of fear.
Aldo Leopold
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