Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

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Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |

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Who has a head of wax should not be in the sunshine.

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World |

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The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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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

When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

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Self |

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While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

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The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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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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Who has patience sees his revenge.

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Enough | Nature |

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Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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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

The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.

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Global | Sense | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.

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Italian Proverbs

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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Force |

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Those who sleep don't catch any fish.

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Sense |

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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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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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