Logo
Quote by John Milton
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

Other quotes by John Milton

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lacky her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. – John Milton

Category:
Chastity
Author
John Milton
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Prudence
category

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. – Tacitus

Category:
Prudence

Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged. – Proverb

Category:
Prudence

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

Category:
Prudence

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. – Henry de Bracton

Category:
Prudence

Random Quotes

Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives. – Russel Honore

Category:
Leadership

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. – Michael Servetus

Category:
War

Before now, Ive always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now Im listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is. – Dr. Dre

Category:
car

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us. – Heinrich Himmler

Category:
thankful