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Prudence Quotes
"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious."
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Sun Tzu
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
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Napoleon Bonaparte
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"
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Alexander Pope
"The better part of valor is discretion."
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William Shakespeare
"If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst."
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George Washington
"Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall"
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J.R.R. Tolkien
"A clever man commits no minor blunders"
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Waste not want not"
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Benjamin Franklin
"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions"
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Italo Calvino
"The hasty stroke goes oft astray"
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J.R.R. Tolkien
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash "
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George S. Patton
"Distrust and caution are the parents of security"
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Benjamin Franklin
"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
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George Santayana
"Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto. "
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Thomas Hobbes
"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can"
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Michel de Montaigne
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