Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The gardener's dog does not eat lettuce and will not let others eat it.

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One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

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Mind | Need | People |

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The fox advised the others to cut off their tails, because he had left his own in the trap.

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Italian Proverbs

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

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Beauty | Gloom | Humanity | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will | Beauty |

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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

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

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Money is an epitome of human power.

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

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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

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.

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Italian Proverbs

One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Italian Proverbs

The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.

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Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |

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One devil drives out another.

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Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |

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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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