Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

No book was so bad, but some good might be got out of it.

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One who speaks fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.

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Attention | Change | Conversation | Global | Land | Need |

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Nothing improves the taste of pasta more than a good appetite.

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Control | People |

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Of this world each man has as much as he takes.

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Life | Life | Men |

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The eye of the master fattens the horse.

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Experience | Life | Life | Principles | Psychology | Time | Youth | Youth |

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Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are.

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The father a saint the son a devil.

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Culture | Means |

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Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.

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Consideration | Man | Nothing |

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One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

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Mind | Need | People |

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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

Much smoke, and little roast.

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Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

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Not all truths are proper to be told.

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Life | Life |

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

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Design |

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Much water passes by the mill that the miller perceives not.

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Need | War |

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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

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

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

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Learning | Need | Will | Teacher |

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Smooth words make smooth ways.

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World |

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On a long journey even a straw is heavy.

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Enough | Good | Man |

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One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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