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Italian Proverbs
No man is indispensable.
Computer | Wrong |
No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered.
Evil | Men |
The eagle does not wage war against frogs.
Important |
On a long journey even a straw is heavy.
Enough | Good | Man |
Saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Right | Wrong | Trouble | Think |
One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.
Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |
Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.
Man |
The first blow is as good as two.
Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |
The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.
Men | Pain | Will |
There is no helping him who will not be advised.
Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |
War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.
Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |
Who has no money must have no wishes.
Men | Worry |
The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.
Right |
When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.
Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |
The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.
Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |
The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.
Public | Question |
There is no appeal from time past.
Good |
Where there is great love there is great pain.
Good | People | Right |
Who hath no courage must have legs.
Events | War |