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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

— John Ortberg

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

— Winston Churchill

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

— Horace

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

— Winston Churchill

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

— Epicurus

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

— Robert South

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

— William McFee

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.

— John Ortberg

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

— Confucius

✗Opposing Perspectives

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

— Clara Barton