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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.


Anatole France


#events #fears #future #hopes #man

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.


Johann Kaspar Lavater


#bold #both #conquers #difficulties #diminishes

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.


William Hazlitt


#prudence #talking #vanity #vanity

Why not? If you're not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends." "You're a twisted little man." "Come on, Stretch, share with the class." "No!" I laughed. "Prude." "Perv." "Schoolmarm." "Some other word that essentially means perv.


Molly Harper


#funny #jane-jameson #molly-harper #nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs #perv

How did Kirchmann understand the worthlessness of jurisprudence ? The answer lies in the aphorism: "Three revisions by the legislator and whole libraries became wastepaper." With a sharp alteration this answer became a slogan:"A stroke of the legislator's pen and whole libraries became wastepaper." Another aphorism in the same vein made the point even more brusquely and less politely: "Positive law turns the jurist into a worm in rotten wood." Kirchmann meant that jurisprudence could never catch up with legislation. Thus our predicament becomes immediately obvious. What remains of a science reduced to annotating and interpreting constantly changing regulations issued by state agencies presumed to be in the best position to know and articulate their true intent?


Carl Schmitt


#change

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.


Clara Barton


#economy #fail #fortune #hand #life

I'm certainly not a prude.


Kim Cattrall


#i #prude

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!


Kristin Davis


#comparison #describe #doing #goodness #i

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.


Democritus


#course #former #latter #mark #prudence

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.


Townsend Harris


#introduction #japanese #made #may #opium