Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

One should learn to sail in all winds.

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Future | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Much smoke, and little roast.

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Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

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Not all words require an answer.

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Better | God | Will | God |

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Italian Proverbs

Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk-teeth.

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Politics | Vision | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Save something for the man that rides on the white horse.

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Right | Study | Will |

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Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.

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Power | Revolution | Will | World |

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Not all truths are proper to be told.

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Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.

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Business | Government | Right | Wealth | Government | Business |

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Italian Proverbs

The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.

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Italian Proverbs

No man is indispensable.

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Computer | Wrong |

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Italian Proverbs

People in glass houses should not throw stones.

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Personality | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

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Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

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Italian Proverbs

No one ever became poor through giving alms.

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Art | Design | Sense | Technology | Thinking | Will | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

One enemy is too much, and a hundred friends are not enough.

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Italian Proverbs

One enemy is too many and a hundred friends aren't enough.

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Learning | Need | Will | Teacher |

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Italian Proverbs

Smooth words make smooth ways.

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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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Italian Proverbs

On a long journey even a straw is heavy.

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Enough | Good | Man |

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Italian Proverbs

Saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

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Right | Wrong | Trouble | Think |

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That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

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