Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Surprise is the enemy of prudence.
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
As love increases, prudence diminishes.
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.
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.
It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top of them. But it is not so. Every year 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 which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of the reins. '
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is. . . God help him.
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.