No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
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.
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
The eye of prudence may never shut.
O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
Do not limp before the lame. [Old Fr. , Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus. ]
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.
Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
Those who get their living by their daily labor. . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.