Quotes About Prudence

Discretion is the better part of valor

When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed.

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

El peligro no justifica un acto irresponsable, por grave que sea la situación. Arya

We classify the positive traits that protect us from excess as strengths of temperance. What are the types of excess of special concern? Hatred—against which forgiveness and mercy protect us. Arrogance—against which humility and modesty protect us. Short-term pleasure with long-term costs—against which prudence protects us. And destabilizing emotional extremes of all sorts—against which self-regulation protects us.

Prudence is a bourgeois virtue, because the rich have something worth saving. The poor splurge because they need desperately to make a colorful splash across the drab fabric of their lives. The hungry don't dream of brown rice and vegetables; they dream of cake.

para no acabar haciendo el necio, prefiero no empezar haciendo el listo.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

Sikap hati-hati adalah anak sulung kebijaksanaan.

When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heaven's sake, why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold.

He was full of sly caution and clumsy recklessness. He

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

She kind of wanted to take off her boots, but that was something you didn't do if there was any chance you might have to quickly flee or kick someone.

Don't buy any shares and rather sell to avoid being ripped off by stock market. Don't be lured and fooled by stories of 54 weak lowest share price propagated by paid youtubers and business news anchors

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.