Great Throughts Treasury

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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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Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel.

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People | Personality |

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Italian Proverbs

There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

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People | Public |

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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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When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

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Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |

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Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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There is a cause for all things.

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Intelligence | People |

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Italian Proverbs

There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The sons of cats catch mice.

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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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Italian Proverbs

The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.

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Administration | Decision | Global | Health | Policy | Right | Rights | Struggle |

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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 wine sinks, words swim.

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Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

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Italian Proverbs

When the danger is past God is cheated.

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Absence | Atheism | Awareness | Awe | Cause | Fortune | Good | Gratitude | Ideas | Important | Insight | Language | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Myth | Need | Nothing | Object | Power | Prosperity | Question | Reality | Religion | Reputation | Reverence | Right | Sacred | Sense | Truth | Understanding | World | Awareness | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.

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Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

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Need | People | World |

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Virtue comes not from chance but long study.

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Memory | Time |

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Water after does not quench a fire at hand.

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Time | Unity | Think |

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