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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. -- Duke of Wellington
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never. -- Livy
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject. -- Cass Gilbert
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. -- Plutarch
Reckless haste makes poor speed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. -- Henry George Bohn
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. -- Roger Ascham
We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. -- Abraham Lincoln
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. -- Aaron Swartz
Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? -- Joseph Addison
I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness. -- Stanis?aw I Leszczy?ski
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. -- Sextus Empiricus
We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it. -- Samuel Johnson
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. -- Jimmy Carter
Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness. -- Poul Anderson
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness. -- Lord Chesterfield
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.] -- Jean de La Fontaine
I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness. -- Stanis?aw I Leszczy?ski
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. -- Thomas Hobbes
Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough. -- John Calvin
Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage. -- Alain-Rene Lesage
God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity. -- Mark Buchanan
There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans. -- Joe Abercrombie

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