Prudence has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Prudence, prudence! | |
| 2. | It is clear that he failed for lack of prudence. | |
| 3. | A man of prudence wouldn't say such things. | |
| 4. | Prudence is never too much. | |
| 5. | Too often, wisdom is simply prudence that has ground to a halt. | |
| 6. | Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. | |
| 7. | I appreciate your prudence. | |
| 8. | Beatings foster prudence. | |
| 9. | We ought at least, for prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own. | |
| 10. | It would be ridiculous to want to restrain oneself from obedience to an external and foremost will only because it did not accord with prudence. For this is precisely the supposition of the government: that it allows its subjects the liberty to judge right and wrong not according to their own understandings but according to the rule of law. |