Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.

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Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |

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No day but has its evening.

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Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |

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One is never too old to yearn.

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Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Never rub your eye but with your elbow.

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Italian Proverbs

People get the government they deserve.

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Better | Love | Relationship | Understand |

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That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

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Dawn | Evolution | History | Individual | Life | Life | Sense | Survival | Truth |

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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

There goes more than one ass to market.

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Ideas | Love | Qualities | Blessed | Winning |

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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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Italian Proverbs

When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

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Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

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Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

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Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.

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Life | Life |

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Voice of one, voice of none.

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Belief | Distinguish | Ethics | God | Human nature | Inevitable | Life | Life | Morality | Nature | Need | Philosophy | Reason | Will | Wrong | God |

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Italian Proverbs

The poor is hated by his neighbor, but the rich hath many friends.

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Better | Life | Life | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

When wine sinks, words swim.

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Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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Children | Day | Depression | Despair | Effort | Knowledge | Life | Life | Parents | Suicide | World | Wrong | Child |

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Italian Proverbs

Weddings and spiritual matters are heaven sent.

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Life | Life | Thought | Thought |

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