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Tag Name "Prudence" (225)

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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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It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
Pope Leo XIII
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I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.
Sharon Creech
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
Horace
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
Victor Hugo
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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Francis Quarles
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I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.
Aldo Leopold
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Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
Publilius Syrus
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No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
Juvenal
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
Samuel Johnson
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For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog.
William Shakespeare
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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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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
Samuel Johnson
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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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People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
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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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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
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Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.
Ha-Joon Chang
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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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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
Jean de La Fontaine
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Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude not to be allured by enticements is temperance not to be diverted by pride is justice.
Francis Quarles
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You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
Khaled Hosseini
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