Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

So many countries, so many customs.

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People | Position | Rule | Speech |

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Of judgment everyone has a stock on hand for sale.

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Adversity |

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Penny and penny laid up will be many.

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Diversity | People | Understanding | Understand |

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Saying is one thing, doing another.

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Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |

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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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Skill or fortune will efface the spots.

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Evidence | Feelings | Little | People | Understand |

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Shame take him that shame thinketh.

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Love | People |

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Starting properly ensures the speedy completion of a process. A beginning is often blocked by one or more obstacles (potential barriers) the removal of which may ensure the smooth course of the process.

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Office | People | Question | Will |

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That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.

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People | Present | Relationship |

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Needs must when the devil drives.

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Harmony | Object | Time |

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Precocious children will mean much trouble later on.

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People | Gossip |

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No one ever kicks a dead dog.

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Art | Means | People | Art |

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One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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

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People |

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One eye of the master sees more than four eyes of his servants.

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Nothing | People |

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Italian Proverbs

No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.

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Money | Research | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

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

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Italian Proverbs

The devil is bad because he is old.

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Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

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The fruit of a good tree is also good.

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Need | People | Understand |

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