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
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas Hobbes
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Robert Hall
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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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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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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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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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
Francis Quarles
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Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton
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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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But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Robert Peel
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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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Mark TwainSamuel JohnsonLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroCharles Caleb ColtonWilliam BlakeBryant H. McGillJonathan SwiftJohn Dryden AesopHenry FieldingThomas HobbesCharles Horton CooleyJohann Kaspar LavaterRobert E. Lee
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