Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition
Prudence Quotes
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Prudence Quotes
Source: The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students
“Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.”
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
“Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.”
Source: The Huston Smith Reader
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.”
“Do not limp before the lame. [Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.]”
“We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics
“When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.”
“At a great pennyworth pause a while.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself
Source: The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes
Source: Lyrics
“There must be in prudence also some master virtue.”
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Tr. with Notes, Original & Selected; an Analytical Introduction; and Questions for the Use of Students
“A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.”
“O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.”
“Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]”
“Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.”
“Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
Source: The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.”
“One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]”
“The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
Source: Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton
Source: The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles