"As love increases, prudence diminishes."
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"Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]"
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"Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune."
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"At a great pennyworth pause a while."
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"Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence."
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"Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence."
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"It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence."
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"A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world."
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"Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it."
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"Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it."
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"Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception."
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"I love prudence very little, if it is not moral."
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"He who has far to ride spares his horse."
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