Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

No news is good news.

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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

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Affliction | Gloom | Light |

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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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She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.

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No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered.

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

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Society | Success | Society |

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Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

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Experience | Nature | Organization |

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The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority.

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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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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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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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The thief's wife does not always laugh.

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Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |

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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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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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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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To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.

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Harm | News | Rights |

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Who has patience sees his revenge.

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Enough | Nature |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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