Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.

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The heart does not think all the mouth says.

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No man is indispensable.

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Computer | Wrong |

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The eagle does not wage war against frogs.

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Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

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Experience | Nature | Organization |

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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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Where there are too many cooks the soup will be too salty.

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The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.

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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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Who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides.

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Who has no shame all the world is his own.

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The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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There is no appeal from time past.

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Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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What shall I say when it is better to say nothing?

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Body | Men | Mind | Reason |

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The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.

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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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The Trojans were wise too late.

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

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Absence | Atheism | Awareness | Awe | Cause | Fortune | Good | Gratitude | Ideas | Important | Insight | Language | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Myth | Need | Nothing | Object | Power | Prosperity | Question | Reality | Religion | Reputation | Reverence | Right | Sacred | Sense | Truth | Understanding | World | Awareness | Understand |

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Where there's a will there's a way.

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Mind | Thought | Thought |

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