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Prudence
There are hurricanes in human affairs, tempests of passion, when it is wise to retire to a harbor and ride it out at anchor. Remedies often make diseases worse.”
Baltasar Gracian
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty.”
Publilius Syrus
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Prudence
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.”
Baltasar Gracian
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Prudence
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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Prince
Prudence
A wise and prudent king knows how to make use of even the least of his subjects.”
Jean de La Fontaine
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Prudence
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The cautious seldom err.”
Confucius
Prudence
Action creates more fortunes than prudence.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
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Prudence
The enlightenment of understanding makes man smarter, but not better.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Prudence
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Francis Bacon
Prudence
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”
Euripides
Prudence
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”
Thomas Hobbes
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Prudence
There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Prudence
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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