Great Throughts Treasury

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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

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

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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 sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

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Future | Present | Time |

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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 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

The well-fed man does not believe in hunger.

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Means | Public | System |

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Italian Proverbs

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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Children | Day | Depression | Despair | Effort | Knowledge | Life | Life | Parents | Suicide | World | Wrong | Child |

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Italian Proverbs

Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

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Need | People | World |

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Italian Proverbs

The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool.

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Language | People | Words |

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Italian Proverbs

The tongue has no bone but it breaks bone.

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Unique | World |

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Italian Proverbs

The tongue goes to where the tooth aches.

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Model | Office | Space | Thinking | Old |

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Italian Proverbs

There is no rule without an exception.

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People | Work | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

To a young heart everything is sport.

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People | Public |

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Italian Proverbs

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

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Self | Sense | World |

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Italian Proverbs

When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow.

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Good | Gratitude | Important | Nothing | People | Practice | Religion |

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Italian Proverbs

Where there is nothing to gain, there is a lot to lose.

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Example | Knowledge | Light | Think |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

And suddenly she began to sing. Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates of night and pours its voice among the dying stars, seeing the sun behind the walls of the world

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.

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Children | Global | Government | Labor | People | Rights | War | Government |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

As I lay in prison, Sam, I tried to remember the Brandywine, and Woody End, and The Water running through the mill at Hobbiton. But I can't see them now.

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Age | Control | Education | Need | Old age | Poverty | Slavery | World | Old |

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