Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

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People | Public |

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When one door closes another opens.

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Play | Will |

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When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

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Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |

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Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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The house completed, possession defeated.

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Will | Woman |

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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.

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There is a cause for all things.

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Intelligence | People |

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There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | Think |

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The world is governed with little brains.

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Need |

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Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.

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Life | Life |

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Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

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Force |

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The tree is not felled at one blow.

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Attention | Will |

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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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Absence | Atheism | History | Means | Prayer | Public | Research | Rule |

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Italian Proverbs

Voice of one, voice of none.

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Belief | Distinguish | Ethics | God | Human nature | Inevitable | Life | Life | Morality | Nature | Need | Philosophy | Reason | Will | Wrong | God |

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Italian Proverbs

To move heaven and earth.

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War | Will | Value |

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Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

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Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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