Prudent Quotes
"The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,
Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
Galileo Galilei, Raymond John Seeger (1966). “Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works”
John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.122, Metropolitan Books
Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.90, Penguin
"Pirithous". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.
The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.
Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.2036, e-artnow