Great Throughts Treasury

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The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions.

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Culture | Evolution | Religion | Research | Science | Theories | World |

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One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

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Mind | Need | People |

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None so deaf as those who will not hear.

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Beauty | Gloom | Humanity | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will | Beauty |

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Of judgment everyone has a stock on hand for sale.

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

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Ability | Coercion | Power |

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One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others.

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Change | People | World | Think |

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Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

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Experience | Nature | Organization |

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So good that he is good for nothing.

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Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

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The light is painful to sore eyes.

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God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |

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The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.

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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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Who has patience sees his revenge.

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Enough | Nature |

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Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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What shall I say when it is better to say nothing?

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Body | Men | Mind | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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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Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

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Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

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When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross.

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Important | Self-knowledge | Truths |

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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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Where there's a will there's a way.

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Mind | Thought | Thought |

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