Quotes About Prudence

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

it has acquired prudence and discretion and orders its life well. Its limitations are those of vision: it has not yet experienced to the full the inspiring force of love. It has not made a full self-oblation, a total self-surrender. Its love is still governed by reason, and so its progress is slow.

El amor jamás encuentra pretexto de imposibilidad porque cree que todo lo puede y le conviene». La prudencia humana, por el contrario, tiembla a cada paso y, por decirlo así, no se atreve a apoyar el pie.

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace.

Frugality should ever be practised, but not excessive parsimony.

P]erhaps in this case, as often, the most courageous resolution might have been at the same time the most prudent

His was one of those petty and mean natures, towards which it is dangerous to practice magnanimity; to his paltry spirit it appeared certainly a dictate of prudence to supplant at the first opportunity his reluctantly acknowledged rival, and his mean soul thirsted after a possibility of retaliating on Caesar for the humiliation which he had suffered through Caesar's indulgence.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Everybody's style of speaking is a mixture of echoes dating from different epochs of the past: hers recalls the prudent and modest civil servants of the last century who were proud that they represented the state and who took care not to compromise themselves by saying the wrong thing.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

My Son, thou art not yet strong and prudent in thy love." 2. Wherefore, O my Lord? 3. "Because for a little opposition thou fallest away from thy undertakings, and too eagerly seekest after consolation. The strong lover standeth fast in temptations, and believeth not the evil persuasions of the enemy. As in prosperity I please him, so in adversity I do not displease.

the intention of every man acting according to virtue is to follow the rule of reason, wherefore the intention of all the virtues is directed to the same end, so that all the virtues are connected together in the right reason of things to be done, viz. prudence,