"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."

"Il faut reculer pour mieux sauter."

"Crede mihi; miseros prudentia prima relinquit."

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

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

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

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

"Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia."

"Je plie et ne romps pas."

"The first years of man must make provision for the last."

"Fasten him as a nail in a sure place."

"Fænum habet in cornu, longe fuge."

"Le trop d'expédients peut gâter une affaire."

"Yee have many strings to your bowe."

"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."

"Better is to bow than breake."

"So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance."

"It is good to have a hatch before the durre."

"Don't cross the bridge till you come to it, Is a proverb old, and of excellent wit."

"Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but neuer strait."

"For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."

"According to her cloth she cut her coat."

"Præstat cautela quam medela."

"Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam."

"Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked."

"No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero."

"Archers ever Have two strings to a bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?"

"Multis terribilis, caveto multos."

"Prudentia est rerum expectandarum fugiendarumque scientia."

"Et vulgariter dicitur, quod primum oportet cervum capere, et postea, cum captus fuerit, illum excoriare."

"Great Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore."

"The last explanation remains to be made about prudence; Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality."

"The prudence of the weak is mere mediocrity."

"It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms."

"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious."

"My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking."