Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The dying cannot leave their wisdom or experience to their heirs.

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Art | Control | Work | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

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Mind | Need | People |

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Italian Proverbs

No good lawyer ever goes to court himself.

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Ability | Balance | Technology | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Saying is one thing, doing another.

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Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

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Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

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Italian Proverbs

The danger past, the saint cheated.

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Children | Memory |

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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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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 sun is still beautiful, though ready to set.

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Wants | Work |

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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

The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.

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Italian Proverbs

The same fire purifies gold and consumes straw.

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Vision | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

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

There is never enough where nought is left.

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Better | Change | Motives | Work | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

To promise and give nothing is comfort for a fool.

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Decision | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

What shall I say when it is better to say nothing?

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Body | Men | Mind | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.

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Global | Sense | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Where passion is high, reason is low.

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Proverbs | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Where there's a will there's a way.

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Mind | Thought | Thought |

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Italian Proverbs

There is no rule without an exception.

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People | Work | Think |

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