Great Throughts Treasury

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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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Italian Proverbs

The first blow is as good as two.

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Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |

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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

There goes more than one ass to market.

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Ideas | Love | Qualities | Blessed | Winning |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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

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

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Good | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

The wicked even hate vice in others.

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Important | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.

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Memory | Time | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

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Future | Present | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

Things that has happened will happen again. Religious myths for example, which are allegorical, will per definition reoccur.

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Italian Proverbs

When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.

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Italian Proverbs

Virtue comes not from chance but long study.

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Memory | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

Water after does not quench a fire at hand.

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Time | Unity | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

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Better | Capacity | Love |

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