Prudence

"Entre l'arbre et l'ecorce il n'y faut pas mettre le doigt."

"Il faut reculer pour mieux sauter."

"Crede mihi; miseros prudentia prima relinquit."

"In ancient times all things were cheape, 'Tis good to looke before thou leape, When corne is ripe 'tis time to reape."

"Cito rumpes arcum, semper si tensum habueris."

"Cum grano salis."

"Ne clochez pas devant les boyteux. (Old French.) Do not limp before the lame."

"Prevention is the daughter of intelligence."

"Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it."

"Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech."

"Think him as a serpent's egg Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell."

"In my school days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the self-same flight The self-same way with more advised watch, To find the other forth, and by adventuring both I oft found both."

"I won't quarrel with my bread and butter."

"Consilio melius vinces quam iracundia."

"Deliberandum est diu, quod statuendum semel."

"It is well to moor your bark with two anchors."

"Plura consilio quam vi perficimus."

"Ratio et consilium, propriæ ducis artes."

"Ut quimus, aiunt, quando ut volumus, non licet."

"Commodius esse opinor duplici spe utier."

"Try therefor before ye trust; look before ye leap."

"Litus ama: * * * altum alii teneant."