Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Nothing improves the taste of pasta more than a good appetite.

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Control | People |

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Take the will for the deed.

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Focus | Government | People | Price | Government |

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The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions.

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Culture | Evolution | Religion | Research | Science | Theories | World |

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Of the great and of the dead either speak will or say nothing.

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Control | Failure | Patience | Wisdom | World | Failure |

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One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

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Mind | Need | People |

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So many countries, so many customs.

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People | Position | Rule | Speech |

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Penny and penny laid up will be many.

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Diversity | People | Understanding | Understand |

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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

Much smoke, and little roast.

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Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others.

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Change | People | World | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Skill or fortune will efface the spots.

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Evidence | Feelings | Little | People | Understand |

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Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.

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Power | Revolution | Will | World |

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Shame take him that shame thinketh.

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Love | People |

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Italian Proverbs

The devil will tempt Lucifer.

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Smooth words make smooth ways.

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Starting properly ensures the speedy completion of a process. A beginning is often blocked by one or more obstacles (potential barriers) the removal of which may ensure the smooth course of the process.

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Office | People | Question | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.

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People | Present | Relationship |

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That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

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No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.

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Efficiency | Knowledge | Money | World |

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Precocious children will mean much trouble later on.

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People | Gossip |

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