Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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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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Italian Proverbs

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

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Hope | People | Understanding |

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Italian Proverbs

Who excuses himself accuses himself.

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People | Philosophy |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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Italian Proverbs

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Will | World |

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Italian Proverbs

There are many roads to Rome.

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Anger | Enough | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Tis good feasting in other men's houses.

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Italian Proverbs

Trust not the praise of a friend nor the contempt of an enemy.

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Good | People |

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Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

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Character | Display | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.

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Italian Proverbs

When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

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Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

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Italian Proverbs

When the head aches all the members languish.

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Death | Order |

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Italian Proverbs

When wine enters modesty departs.

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Ideas | People |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has no shame all the world is his own.

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Italian Proverbs

The right man comes at the right time.

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Government | Looks | Means | Opportunity | Safe | Worry | Government | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

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Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

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Italian Proverbs

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

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.

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Better | Ethics | People |

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