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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There goes more than one ass to market.

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Ideas | Love | Qualities | Blessed | Winning |

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To every saint his torch.

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Effort | Good | Hope | Important | Question |

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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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When wine enters modesty departs.

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Ideas | People |

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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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When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

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While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

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The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

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Respect | System | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

There is no appeal from time past.

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Good |

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Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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Italian Proverbs

The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.

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Italian Proverbs

There is no love without jealousy.

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Talking | Worth |

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Italian Proverbs

When the devil is old he turns hermit.

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Character | Effort |

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Italian Proverbs

Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

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Force |

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Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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Absence | Atheism | History | Means | Prayer | Public | Research | Rule |

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The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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