Prudence
The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.
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Prudence Quotations
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Clara Barton
Prudence Translations
prudence in French is prudence
prudence in German is Besonnenheit
prudence in Swedish is klokhet
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