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Tag Name "Prudence" (224)

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I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more alive than you are. Do take a closer look!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
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Since, though I do not repent my amorous exploits, I am far from wanting my example to contribute to the corruption of the fair sex, which deserves our homage for so many reasons, I hope that my observations will foster prudence in fathers and mothers and thus at least deserve their esteem.
Giacomo Casanova
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While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.
Austin O'Malley
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It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
Marcus Aurelius
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Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston Churchill
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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
Herman Melville
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There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.
George Carlin
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The only prudence in life is concentration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
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Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
Mason Cooley
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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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Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.
Hosea Ballou
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Surprise is the enemy of prudence.
Goliarda Sapienza
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
Sophocles
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
William Hazlitt
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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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Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
Alain de Botton
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