#caution

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Action makes more fortune than caution. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

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Precaution is better than cure. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Distrust and caution are the parents of security. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction. ↗

— James McGreevey

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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. ↗

— William James

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The scars of others should teach us caution. ↗

— St. Jerome

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