Great Throughts Treasury

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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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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

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.

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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

The liar is not believed when he speaks the 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 is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it.

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Better | Opinion | Question | World |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has a head of wax should not be in the sunshine.

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Italian Proverbs

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Will | World |

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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

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

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Harm | News | Rights |

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Italian Proverbs

The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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Italian Proverbs

The liar needs a good memory.

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Italian Proverbs

Think much, speak little and write less.

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Reform | World |

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Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

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Italian Proverbs

The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.

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Administration | Decision | Global | Health | Policy | Right | Rights | Struggle |

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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

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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