646 PRUDENCE PRUDENCE
Fasten him as a nail in a sure place.
Tonigh. XXII. 23.
The first years of man must make provision
for the last.
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Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.
One has no protecting power save prudence.
Juvenal—Satires. X. 365. Also Satires.
XIV. 315.
Je plie et ne romps pas.
I bend and do not break.
La Fontaine—Fables. I. 22.
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| text = <poem>Le trop d'expeclients peut gater une affaire.
Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
La Fontaine—Fables. LX. 14.
Don't cross the bridge till you come to it,
Is a proverb old, and of excellent wit.
LoNGVEii/yw—Christus. The Golden Legend.
Pt.VI.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights
burning.
Lvke. XII. 35.
Entre l'arbre et l'ecorce il n'y faut pas mettre
le doigt.
Between the tree and the bark it is better
not to put your finger.
Moliere—MfyleeinMalgreLui. Act I. Sc. 2.
II faut reculer pour mieux sauter.
One must draw back in order to leap better.
Montaigne—Essays. Bk. I. Ch. XXXVIII.
Crede mihi; miseros prudentia prima relinquit.
Believe me; it is prudence that first forsakes
the wretched.
Ovid—Epistolle Ex Panto. IV. 12. 4?.
In ancient times all things were cheape,
'Tis good to looke before thou leape,
When corne is ripe 'tis time to reape.
Maetyn Parker—The Roxburglw Ballads.
An Excellent New Medley.
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| text = <poem>Cito rumpes arcum, semper si tensum habueris.
You will soon break the bow if you keep it
always stretched.
Piledrus—Fab. Bk. III. 14. 10. Syrus—
Maxims. 388.
Cum grano salis.
With a grain of salt.
Pliny—Natural History. XXIII. 8. 77.
Giving the story of Pompey, who when he
took the palace of Mithridates, found hidden the antidote against poison, "to be
, taken fasting, addite salis grano."
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Ne olochez pas devant les boy teux. (Old French .)
Do not limp before the lame.
Rabelais—Gargantva.
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
Sir Walter Raleigh—Letter to Sir Robert
Cecil. 'May 10, 1593.
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| text = <poem>Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance
of not hearing it.
George Sand—Handsome Lawrence. Ch. II.
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.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act I. Sc. 1. L.
73.
is Think him as a serpent's egg
Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,
And kill him in the shell.
Julius Cmsar. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 32.
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.
Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 139.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Swift—Polite Conversation. Dialogue I.
Consilio melius vinces quam iracundia.
You will conquer more surely by prudence
than by passion.
Syrus—Maxims.
Deliberandum est diu, quod statuendum semel.
That should be considered long which can
be decided but once.
Syrus—Maxims.
It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.
Syrus—Maxims. 119.
Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.
We accomplish more by prudence than by
force.
Tacitus—Annates. II. 26.
Ratio et consilium, propria? ducis artes.
Forethought and prudence are the proper
qualities of a leader.
Tacitus—Annates. XIII. 20.
Ut quimus, aiunt, quando ut volumus, non licet.
As we can, according to the old saying,
when we can not, as we would.
Terence—Andria. IV. 5. 10.
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I th i nk it better to have two strings to my bow. Terence—Phormio. IV. 2. 13. 28
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Try therefor before ye trust; look before ye leap. John Trapp—Commentary on I Peter. III. 17. Tracing the saving to St. Bernard.
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