When in doubt, follow the suit of the wise and prudent.
The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty.
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.
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Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.
A wise and prudent king knows how to make use of even the least of his subjects.
The cautious seldom err.
The impulses of the passions cause prudence to slip, and there is the risk of ruin.
Action creates more fortunes than prudence.
The enlightenment of understanding makes man smarter, but not better.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Life is more beautiful than caution.
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
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