| "Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent." »Euripides |
| "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." »Francis Bacon |
| "A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind." »Thales |
| "It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived." »Rene Descartes |
| "Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable." »Jean de La Fontaine |
| "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 |
| "Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control." »Democritus |
| "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 |
| "A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse." »Sophocles |
| "All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter." »Edmund Burke |
| "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 |
| "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation." »Pearl Sydenstricker Buck |
| "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 |
| "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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