Prudence sayings

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◆ When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence.

- Benson Bruno99

◆ Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything

- Latin Proverb99

◆ Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater99

◆ You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead

- Lois Platford99

◆ I used to put in a safety pin to make sure.

- Catherine Galbraith99

◆ The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself

- Niccolo Machiavelli99

◆ If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

- Omar Bradley99

◆ Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.

- William Blake99

◆ Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life

- Akhenaton99

◆ The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts

- Henry Fielding99

◆ If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

- Saskya Pandita99

◆ Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

- William E Gladstone99

◆ Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca99