Prudent
Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.
Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.
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Prudent Quotations
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 F. Kennedy
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
Vincent Van Gogh
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
James Madison
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Rene Descartes
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Euripides
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Prudent Translations
prudent in Danish is fornuftig
prudent in Dutch is verstandig
prudent in French is sage, prudent
prudent in German is besonnen
prudent in Latin is prudens
prudent in Spanish is prudente
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