Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
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.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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