Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

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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Much smoke, and little roast.

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Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

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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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Italian Proverbs

Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.

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Power | Revolution | Will | World |

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The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.

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The devil will tempt Lucifer.

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Once resolved, the trouble is over.

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Church | Counsel | Rest | Counsel |

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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 enemy is too much, and a hundred friends are not enough.

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Smooth words make smooth ways.

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Summer is the mother of the poor.

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Democracy | Good | Means | Vision |

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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

No one ever kicks a dead dog.

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Art | Means | People | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

Nothing venture, nothing have.

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Comfort | God | Light | Looks | God |

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Italian Proverbs

One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

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People |

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Speak of the Devil and he appears.

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Means |

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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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One devil drives out another.

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Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |

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