"Let your loins be gilded about, and your lights burning."

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

"You're mistaken: men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot b…"

"It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire."

"Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity."

"'Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour, As he that has two strings t' his bow, And burns for …"

"[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when…"

"You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear, that the first duty is to get land and money, pl…"

"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."

"Crede mihi; miseros prudentia prima relinquit."