Quotes About Prudence

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

And babes are as capable of knowing these things as the wise and prudent; and they are often hid from these when they are revealed to those: 1 Cor. i. 26, 27, "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world...." Secondly

Natural men's prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, don't secure 'em a moment. This, divine providence and universal experience does also bear testimony to.

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell than a spider's web would have to stop a falling rock.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.

instrucciones de prudencia dignas de grandes paranoicos.

C'est utile quand la vie vous sourit, de savoir qu'elle va vous passer à tabac, et quand on tâtonne dans les ténèbres, que la lumière va revenir. ça donne de la prudence, ça donne de la confiance. ça aide à relativiser ses états d'âme. Du moins, ça devrait.

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.

Confident because of our caution

Il massimo bene è la prudenza. Per questo la prudenza è anche più pregevole della filosofia, e da essa hanno origine anche tutte le altre virtù, perché insegna come non è possibile una vita felice che non sia una vita saggia, bella e giusta, e non è possibile una vita saggia, bella e giusta che non sia felice. Le virtù sono infatti connaturate alla vita felice e la vita felice è da esse inseparabile.

The conventions of hedonism and of utility can, in fact, be extremely elaborate. Its motives, however, though perhaps wholly free of greed, remain strictly those of need. Goodness remains reducible to utility, rightness to prudence, beauty to aesthetic enjoyment. The point of reference is individual preference, not the generically human vision of a moral sense of life. What is missing is the recognition of intrinsic beauty, rightness, goodness.

It's better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger.

Waiting seemed the wiser course.

didn't seem wise.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

For want of modesty is want of sense.