Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The eye of the master fattens the horse.

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Experience | Life | Life | Principles | Psychology | Time | Youth | Youth |

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The dying cannot leave their wisdom or experience to their heirs.

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Art | Control | Work | Art |

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No good lawyer ever goes to court himself.

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Ability | Balance | Technology | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Saying is one thing, doing another.

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Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

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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The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

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Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

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One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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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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Italian Proverbs

The sun is still beautiful, though ready to set.

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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 same fire purifies gold and consumes straw.

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Vision | Work |

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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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Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.

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Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |

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There is never enough where nought is left.

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Better | Change | Motives | Work | Understand |

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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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