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• The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

  Plautus

  Men, Fortune

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• Chance generally favors the prudent.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Fate, Favors

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• There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole world, if thereby they suffer the loss of their own souls? What will it profit to teach them sound principles in economics, if they permit themselves to be so swept away by selfishness, by unbridled and sordid greed, that hearing the commandments of the Lord, they do all things contrary.

  Pope Pius XI

  Loss, Men, Greed

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)., Pope Pius XI. (1931). “On Social Reconstruction: Encyclical Letter”

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• And by a prudent flight and cunning save
  A life which valour could not, from the grave.
  A better buckler I can soon regain,
  But who can get another life again?

  Archilochus

  Life, Flight, Graves

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• It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning.

  Steve King

  Responsibility, Compassion, People

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• By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Past, Men, Expectations

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.23, Broadview Press

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• To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.

  James Bovard

  Moving, Government, Average

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.272, Macmillan

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• Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Knowing, Evil

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• Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Loss, Gun

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

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• I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

  Carl Rogers

  Emotional, Confusion, Pay

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• Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

  Voltaire

  Acceptance, Destiny

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.159, Voltaire

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• While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.

  Steven Chu

  Running, Risk, Climate

  Letter from Secretary Steven Chu to Energy Department Employees, energy.gov. February 01, 2013.

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• Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

  Periander

  Depression, Good Life, Adversity

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• When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

  Andre Gide

  Needs, Prudence

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• I would never believe it of you, my boy, regardless of the schemers your mother and sister turned out to be. You may not be the most clever boy, nor the most prudent, nor the most gentlemanlike, nor...Edward cleared his throat.Right! But you have a good heart, and I have every hope that with the proper education and mentoring you will be credit to the family yet.

  Julie Klassen

  Mother, Clever, Believe

  Julie Klassen (2010). “The Silent Governess”, p.406, Bethany House

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• Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Assessment, Decision, Hazards

  "The Moral-Hazard Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 29, 2005.

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• And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

  Timothy Geithner

  Business, Thinking, America

  "Interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on "Meet the Press"". www.realclearpolitics.com. July 25, 2010.

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• 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 himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Vices, Needs, Serious

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.90, Penguin

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• The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

  Townsend Harris

  Wish, President, May

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• Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Errors, Risk, Atmosphere

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Long, Principles

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• Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Deceit, Anxious

  John Andreas Widtsoe, Leah Dunford Widtsoe (1938). “The word of wisdom: a modern interpretation”

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• The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, May, Enthusiasm

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• Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Marriage, Strong, Humble

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