Quotes of Precaution - somelinesforyou

“ In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed. ”

- James Jones

“ The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. ”

- Randolph Silliman Bourne

“ Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded. We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard of power… ”

- Edmund Burke
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