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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do un

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. – John Milton

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men the rest love not freedom, but licence. – John Milton

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. – Samuel Johnson

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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. – Charles Horton Cooley

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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. – Randolph Silliman Bourne

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The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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