Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

On every small pretext the wolf seizes the sheep.

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Ability | Fault | Mind | Fault |

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The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions.

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Culture | Evolution | Religion | Research | Science | Theories | World |

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Of the great and of the dead either speak will or say nothing.

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Control | Failure | Patience | Wisdom | World | Failure |

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One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

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Mind | Need | People |

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Much smoke, and little roast.

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Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

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One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others.

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Change | People | World | Think |

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Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.

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Power | Revolution | Will | World |

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Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.

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Business | Government | Right | Wealth | Government | Business |

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She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.

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The devil will tempt Lucifer.

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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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Smooth words make smooth ways.

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Italian Proverbs

The eagle does not wage war against frogs.

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Italian Proverbs

That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

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Italian Proverbs

No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.

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Efficiency | Knowledge | Money | World |

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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

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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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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