Definition of Prudence

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Definition of Prudence
	Prudence The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality. Related Definitions: Also, And, Being, Carefulness, Caution, Discretion, Economy, Frugality, Hence, In, Of, Or, Provision, Prudent, Quality, State, The, Way, Wisdom

Prudence Quotations

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

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
Charles Horton Cooley

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas Hobbes

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Democritus

Prudence Translations

prudence in French is prudence
prudence in German is Besonnenheit
prudence in Swedish is klokhet

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