Great Throughts Treasury

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

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People | Present | Relationship |

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Needs must when the devil drives.

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Harmony | Object | Time |

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Precocious children will mean much trouble later on.

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People | Gossip |

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Italian Proverbs

No one ever kicks a dead dog.

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Art | Means | People | Art |

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One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

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One eye of the master sees more than four eyes of his servants.

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Nothing | People |

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No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.

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Money | Research | Time |

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So good that he is good for nothing.

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Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

The devil is bad because he is old.

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Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

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The fruit of a good tree is also good.

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Need | People | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

The thief's wife does not always laugh.

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Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |

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Italian Proverbs

Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.

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Government | Guilt | People | Public | Truth | Warning | Government |

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Italian Proverbs

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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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

There is no helping him who will not be advised.

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Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |

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Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.

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Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |

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What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.

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Hope | People | Understanding |

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