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• Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.

  Jean Racine

  Wisdom, Worry, Too Much

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• Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

  Fay Weldon

  Desire, One Thing

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.345, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

  Samuel Johnson

  School, Axioms

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: including the series edited with prefaces, biographical and critical”, p.277

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• When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Age, Young, Lays

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• A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

  Joseph Addison

  Reading, Men, Example

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.305

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• Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Political, Important, Entering

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• There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

  Aristotle

  Virtue, Masters

  Aristotle (1850). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Tr. with Notes, Original & Selected; an Analytical Introduction; and Questions for the Use of Students”, p.162

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

  Mason Cooley

  Trouble, Misdeeds

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• The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Home, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Action, Conception

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Youth, Companion

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• Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Festivals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.228, Modern Library

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• Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Men, Magic

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.181

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• Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Past, Times Past, Presumption

  Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

  Thucydides

  Successful, Enemy, Coward

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• These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.

  Harold Nicolson

  Loyalty, Taken, Quality

  "Diplomacy". Book by Harold George Nicolson, chapter 3, p. 126, 1939.

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• Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

  William Fleming

  Men, Common Sense, Degrees

  William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.95

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• Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strength, Wise, Strong

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

  Rene Descartes

  Anger, Passion, Self

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• As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Flirting, Games, Excitement

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• I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Terrible Events, People, Guarantees

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• He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.

  Darynda Jones

  Milk, Resolve, Tact

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.36, Macmillan

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• A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pain, Mistake, Desire

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• Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

  Diana Ross

  Past, Order, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Honesty, Unique

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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