Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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

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Italian Proverbs

There is a cause for all things.

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Intelligence | People |

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Italian Proverbs

There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | 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 world is governed with little brains.

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Need |

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The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver.

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Men |

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Italian Proverbs

Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Force |

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Italian Proverbs

Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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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Italian Proverbs

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

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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Italian Proverbs

The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.

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Administration | Decision | Global | Health | Policy | Right | Rights | Struggle |

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Italian Proverbs

The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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Italian Proverbs

When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

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Respect | Will | World | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

When wine sinks, words swim.

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Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

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Italian Proverbs

When the danger is past God is cheated.

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Absence | Atheism | Awareness | Awe | Cause | Fortune | Good | Gratitude | Ideas | Important | Insight | Language | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Myth | Need | Nothing | Object | Power | Prosperity | Question | Reality | Religion | Reputation | Reverence | Right | Sacred | Sense | Truth | Understanding | World | Awareness | Understand |

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