“I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]”
“Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.”
“Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.”
“I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.”
“Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?”
“Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]”
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