Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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The world is for him who has patience.

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There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

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People | Public |

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When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

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Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |

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Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.

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There is a cause for all things.

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Intelligence | People |

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There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Time and patience change the mulberry leaf to satin.

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Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

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Force |

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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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Italian Proverbs

Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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Absence | Atheism | History | Means | Prayer | Public | Research | Rule |

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Who by himself can do anything, do not wait for others to do.

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Commitment | Good | Means | Mystery | Object | Religion |

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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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Italian Proverbs

The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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Italian Proverbs

What costs little is little esteemed.

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Enough | Humanity | Progress | Science | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

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Respect | Will | World | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

The well-fed man does not believe in hunger.

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Means | Public | System |

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