#prudent

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. ↗

— Thucydides

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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#careful #despair #facts #faithful #frankly

We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#affecting #crisis #delicate #developed #established

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. ↗

— Euripides

#ever #fights #prudent #side

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#financial #i #itself #maintain #management

We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#countries #eurozone #expect #find #help

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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