“...it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.”
“Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.”
“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”
“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.”
“We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord”
“In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”