Top Prudence Quotes
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 but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas Hobbes
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Robert Hall
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Jonathan Swift 
Robert Hall 
Molly Ivins 
Henry Fielding 
John Dryden All Prudence Quotes
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 
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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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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Robert Hall
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
Francis Quarles
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
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No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
Knut Hamsun
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Popular Prudence Authors
Mark TwainSamuel JohnsonLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroCharles Caleb ColtonWilliam BlakeBryant H. McGillJonathan SwiftJohn Dryden AesopHenry FieldingThomas HobbesCharles Horton CooleyJohann Kaspar LavaterRobert E. Lee
Francis QuarlesMarquis De VauvenarguesMarvin OlaskyRobert Dale OwenWilliam E. Gladstone Origen DemocritusOmar N. BradleyKnut HamsunClara BartonMolly Ivins AkhenatonRobert HallRobert PeelCatherine McAuley
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