“A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern h”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.”
Pearl S. Buck
“Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”
Euripides
“The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality”
Wendell Phillips
“No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“But we also have to be prudent going forward in terms of what long-term spending commitments we can make,”
Carole Taylor
