Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest.
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
When prudence is only fear in disguise, its scruples cannot be conquered.
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is, and steal out of your company.
The better part of wisdom is a sublime prudence, a pure and patient truth that will receive nothing it is not sure it can permanently lay to heart.
The awful daring of a moment’s surrender which an age of prudence can never retract by this, and this only, we have existed.
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
Prudence is for those who intend to live long lives.
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
Prudence consists in being able to know the nature of the difficulties, and taking the least harmful as good.[La prudenza consiste in saper cognoscere la qualità degli inconvenienti, e prendere il manco tristo per buono.]
