Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

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Italian Proverbs

The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.

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Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |

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Italian Proverbs

One devil drives out another.

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Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |

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Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

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Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.

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Memory | Order | Rank |

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Italian Proverbs

The devil is bad because he is old.

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Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

Two women and a goose make a market.

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Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

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Italian Proverbs

What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

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When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.

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Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |

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To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.

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Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |

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Italian Proverbs

Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home.

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Necessity | Self | Theoretical |

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Italian Proverbs

The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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Italian Proverbs

The right man comes at the right time.

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Government | Looks | Means | Opportunity | Safe | Worry | Government | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

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Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

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Italian Proverbs

When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

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Italian Proverbs

While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

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Italian Proverbs

The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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Italian Proverbs

When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

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Respect | System | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail.

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