Mason Cooley Quotes About Prudence

Quotes about: Prudence

• Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.

  Mason Cooley

  Trouble, Prudence, Misdeeds

• An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

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  Friends, Enemy, Dangerous

• Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

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  Happiness, Risk, Bait

• The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

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  Hero, Winning, Play

• Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

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  Doe, Prudence, Shows

• Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

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  Giving, Luck, Method

• The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

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  Burning, Limits, Building

• In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

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  Important, World, Ethics

• Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

  Mason Cooley

  Happy, People, Doe

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