Great Throughts Treasury

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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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Italian Proverbs

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

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Man |

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Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.

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Individual | Thought | Will | Thought |

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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

No day but has its evening.

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Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

One is never too old to yearn.

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Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

One devil drives out another.

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Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |

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Italian Proverbs

The first blow is as good as two.

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Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |

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The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

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The light is painful to sore eyes.

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God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |

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Italian Proverbs

When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.

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Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |

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Italian Proverbs

Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.

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Men | Pain | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Will | World |

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Italian Proverbs

There are many roads to Rome.

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Anger | Enough | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

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Character | Display | Will |

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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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Italian Proverbs

To promise and give nothing is comfort for a fool.

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Decision | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

When one door closes another opens.

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Play | Will |

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