Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Nothing | People |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

The first blow is as good as two.

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Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |

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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

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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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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Italian Proverbs

Two women and a goose make a market.

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Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

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Italian Proverbs

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

Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.

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Men | Pain | Will |

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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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Italian Proverbs

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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Italian Proverbs

To every saint his torch.

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Effort | Good | Hope | Important | Question |

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Italian Proverbs

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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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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Who has no money must have no wishes.

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Men | Worry |

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Italian Proverbs

The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.

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Right |

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