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Tag Name "Prudence" (225)

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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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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
Mason Cooley
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In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.
Mason Cooley
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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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Always take an extra quarter to the laundry room.
Wes Smith
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
Marvin Olasky
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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.
Saint Augustine
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Prudence reproaches conscience accuses.
Immanuel Kant
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
Andre Maurois
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As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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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Housekeeping is not beautiful it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child neither the host nor the guestit oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.
Gordon Brown
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Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.
Aristotle
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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 does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.
Mason Cooley
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
Molly Ivins
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Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
Henry David Thoreau
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Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Samuel Johnson
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