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Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.
-Proverb
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
-William Blake
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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
-Randolph Silliman Bourne
Youth and Life
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
-Henry de Bracton
De Legibus, 1240
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
-Charles Horton Cooley
Life and the Student
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
-Euripides
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
-Henry Fielding
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
-Molly Ivins
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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
-Samuel Johnson
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
-Samuel Johnson
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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.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
-John Milton
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Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortly Montagu
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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
-Ovid
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Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
-Publilius Syrus
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
-Tacitus
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Books about Prudence
