Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The thief's wife does not always laugh.

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Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |

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Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.

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Government | Guilt | People | Public | Truth | Warning | Government |

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Italian Proverbs

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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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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Italian Proverbs

There is no helping him who will not be advised.

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Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.

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Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |

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Italian Proverbs

What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.

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Hope | People | Understanding |

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Who excuses himself accuses himself.

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People | Philosophy |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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Italian Proverbs

Tis good feasting in other men's houses.

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Trust not the praise of a friend nor the contempt of an enemy.

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Italian Proverbs

When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.

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Italian Proverbs

When wine enters modesty departs.

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Ideas | People |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

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

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.

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Better | Ethics | People |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.

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Good | Time |

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The wicked even hate vice in others.

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Important | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

When in trouble first of all every one himself should do his best to improve his condition.

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Good | People |

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