Great Throughts Treasury

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To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.

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Harm | News | Rights |

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When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

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Respect | System | Respect |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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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 covetous man is good to none and worst to himself.

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

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The sons of cats catch mice.

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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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Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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

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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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The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.

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

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The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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What costs little is little esteemed.

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Enough | Humanity | Progress | Science | Will | Think |

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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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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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Italian Proverbs

Those who begin many things finish but a few.

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Defense | Respect | Science | Technology | Respect |

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To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.

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