Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail.

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Self |

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Who has patience sees his revenge.

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Enough | Nature |

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Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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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 one door closes another opens.

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Play | Will |

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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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The house completed, possession defeated.

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Will | Woman |

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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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

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Who has no children does not know what love is.

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Hope | Order | Space |

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Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.

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Life | Life |

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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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The tree is not felled at one blow.

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Attention | Will |

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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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Italian Proverbs

Voice of one, voice of none.

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Belief | Distinguish | Ethics | God | Human nature | Inevitable | Life | Life | Morality | Nature | Need | Philosophy | Reason | Will | Wrong | God |

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Italian Proverbs

To move heaven and earth.

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War | Will | Value |

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Italian Proverbs

Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

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Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

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When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

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The poor is hated by his neighbor, but the rich hath many friends.

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Better | Life | Life | Understand |

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