Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.

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Right | Study | Will |

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Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.

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Business | Government | Right | Wealth | Government | Business |

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Italian Proverbs

On a long journey even a straw is heavy.

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Enough | Good | Man |

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Italian Proverbs

Saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

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Right | Wrong | Trouble | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Needs must when the devil drives.

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Harmony | Object | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.

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No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.

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Money | Research | Time |

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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 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

The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

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There is no helping him who will not be advised.

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Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

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

The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.

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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

When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

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Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

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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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Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.

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Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.

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Good | Time |

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The wicked even hate vice in others.

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Important | Time |

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