Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Prudence

Quotes about: Prudence

• Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Birthday, Age, Youth

• Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Doe, Youth

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, James LOGAN (Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania.) (1750). “Cato Major; Or, a Treatise on Old Age ... With Explanatory Notes from the Roman History. By Mr. Loggan [sic]. To which is Prefixed, the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.42

• I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Silent, Prudence, Folly

  "De Oratore", III. 35, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 645-47,

• Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Expression, Use

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

• Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
  [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Drinking, Men, Sober

• I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
  [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Silent, Prudence, Folly

• Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Action, Prudence, Conception

• Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, Demand, Prosperity

• Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Youth, Companion

• Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Prudence

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 43, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 645-47, 44 B.C..

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