“Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place.”
— John Milton
“And since the quarrel
Will bear no color for the thing he is,
Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented,
Would run to these and these extremities;
And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg,
Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous,
And kill him in the shell.”
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar