Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.
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.
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.
Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.
There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
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.
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat. , Plura consilio quam vi perficimus. ]
He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.