Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment.
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
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Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
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The first years of man make provision for the last.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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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.
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In nature all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.
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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.
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There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear
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Good nature without prudence, is foolishness
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination
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Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
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