#prudence

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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When whisky talks it rarely counsels prudence. ↗

— Anthony McDonald

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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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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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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence. ↗

— Bauvard

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In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law. ↗

— Aly Khan

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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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