#prudence

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ↗

— Robert Hall

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

— Bauvard

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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. ↗

— Herbert Read

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The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. ↗

— Herbert Read

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