Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

To protest and knock one's head against the wall is what everybody can do.

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Good | Ignorance | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool.

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Language | People | Words |

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Italian Proverbs

Words are female, deeds are male.

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Creed | Disbelief | God | Truth | Will | God |

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Italian Proverbs

With patience you go beyond knowledge.

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God | Harm | Ignorance | Power | Time | Truth | Will | Witness | God |

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Italian Proverbs

You surround your vineyard with thorns - place doors and locks on your mouth. You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults.

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Change | Human nature | Life | Life | Nature | Reality | Religion | Truth | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Who would have many friends let him test but few.

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Battle | God | Kill | Language | Wills | God |

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Ivan Krastev

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions; transparency is politics' management of mistrust.

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Cult | Language | Myth | Paradise | People | Reality | Religion | Sense | Story | World |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

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Humanity | Slavery | Truth |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

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Art | Heart | Language | Religion | Art |

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