Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Prudence
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.
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But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.
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Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
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