#prudence

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips. ↗

— Origen

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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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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

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. ↗

— Democritus

#course #former #latter #mark #prudence

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them. ↗

— Dahlia Lithwick

#jurisprudence #slate #inspirational