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«It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion,
Truth,
Understanding
| Keywords:
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«He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Enemies
| Keywords:
lying in wait, prudent, victorious, wait
«It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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«House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.»
«Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions»
«I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.»
«Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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«Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Moderation
| Keywords:
acquaintance, foundation, importance, indifference, moderation, proceed, proportioned, prudent, well-proportioned, with moderation, zeal
«Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abandonment, possessed, prudent, self-possessed
«In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.»
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