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"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent." »Euripides
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"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." »Francis Bacon
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"Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control." »Democritus
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"A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind." »Thales
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"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived." »Rene Descartes
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"Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable." »Jean de La Fontaine
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"But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all." »Don Quixote
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"A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse." »Sophocles
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"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace." »The Hitopadesa
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"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter." »Edmund Burke
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"Plans that are wise and prudent in themselves are rendered vain when the execution of them is carried on negligently and with imprudence." »Guicciardini
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"prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think." »Mary Wortley Montagu
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"I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation." »Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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"Wise and prudent men -- intelligent conservatives -- have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband." »Chinese
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