Toils and dangers are needed to win over what belongs to others, but a little prudence suffices to retain what is already yours.

The most cautious prudence of conduct, the most undeviating rectitude in those who are by their fortune or rank obnoxious to the tyrant, far from contributing to their security, only mark them out for a more early sacrifice.

Mere prudence was not strong enough to keep us apart.

Do you then esteem Simon as your father because he is a man of extraordinary prudence, and be governed by him in what counsels he gives you.

There is a distempered and ambitious morality which says civil prudence is no virtue.

On September 23, acting upon the advice of Premier Venizelos, King Constantine of Greece ordered a general mobilization of the Greek army, "as a measure of elementary prudence in view of the mobilization of Bulgaria."

It is impossible to read his correspondence with the empress, and in subsequent years with Marie Antoinette herself, without being forcibly impressed with respect for his consummate prudence, his sound judgment in matters of public policy, and his unswerving fidelity to the interests of both mother and daughter.

Human nature was stubborn; one paid for forcing it to obey the rules of worldly prudence.

I did not count on generosity or chivalrous goodness from the governments of England and France, but I gave them credit for selfish and instinctive prudence.

Notwithstanding his defiant expression, Henri had sufficient prudence to induce him to bend his head and shoulders, and in a few minutes they reached the shelter of the willows unseen by the savages.

But when the rear-guards amount to some 100,000 men, resistance is still formidable, not to be handled with anything but extreme prudence by those who have such vast interests in charge as the Generals of the Allies.

A reasonable prudence, if nothing else, must keep Germany armed and apprehensive.

On reaching Biebrich, tired and hungry, at nightfall, everything was ready for them, and all went to bed praising Karl, the courier, though Amy, with unusual prudence, added, "He is a new broom now; let us wait a little before we judge.

For the sake of this conjunction as an end, the wife has a perception of the affections of the husband, and also the utmost prudence in moderating them.

Their remarks are too just to be disputed, and too salutary to be rejected; but there is likewise some danger lest timorous prudence should be inculcated, till courage and enterprise are wholly repressed, and the mind congealed in perpetual inactivity by the fatal influence of frigorifick wisdom.

But as ambition soon overleaps the confines of restraint and equity, he was carried away by the violent counsels of the cardinal, or else surrendered himself to them of his own accord, executing with admirable prudence and address the plans which were always chalked out by his brother."

The Convention, though it could not be insensible of this, was willing, with a complaisant prudence, to avoid the scandal of a public discussion, which must irritate the Jacobins, and expose its own weakness by a retrospect of the crimes it had applauded and supported.

But O! what need is there of holy prudence to preach it aright, that is, at right times to the right ears!

Hence the scaffolds flow less frequently with blood, and the barbarous prudence of CAMILLE DESMOULINS' guillotine economique has been adopted.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle, Well-beloved of me, discerning to fulfil This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good.

With great practical prudence and a brilliant speculative capacity,in a clergyman, prudence is less than faith, and brilliancy of thought than the glow of the heart.

He believed that the privileges of the college and the franchises of Brabant would prove a sufficient protection to the youth; and this appears the only instance in which William's vigilant prudence was deceived.

Unhappily, false prudence made itself heard: it was resolved to keep silence, and not to deprive the South of the honor of a voluntary emancipationin fine, to reserve the question for the future.

There is no making nobility ignoble, bravery cowardly, or prudence foolish: it is impossible.

Less than ever, would he depart from his habitual prudence, for a terrible suspicion was incrusted in his mind; but he did not wish to say anything yet.