Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.

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Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |

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Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.

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Men | Pain | Will |

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The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.

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Mind |

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There is no helping him who will not be advised.

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Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |

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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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The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Will | World |

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Italian Proverbs

There are many roads to Rome.

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Anger | Enough | Will |

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There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.

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Disgrace | Think |

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War begun, hell unchained.

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Character | Display | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

When the head aches all the members languish.

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Death | Order |

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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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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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Italian Proverbs

When one door closes another opens.

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Play | Will |

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The house completed, possession defeated.

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Will | Woman |

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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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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

The world is governed with little brains.

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Need |

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The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.

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