Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The father a saint the son a devil.

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Culture | Means |

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The gardener's dog does not eat lettuce and will not let others eat it.

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Age |

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One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

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Mind | Need | People |

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Italian Proverbs

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

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Beauty | Gloom | Humanity | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will | Beauty |

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The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.

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Design |

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The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

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Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

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One enemy is too much, and a hundred friends are not enough.

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Smooth words make smooth ways.

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World |

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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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The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.

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Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |

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One devil drives out another.

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Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |

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The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.

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Memory | Order | Rank |

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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

Two women and a goose make a market.

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Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

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Italian Proverbs

What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

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

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

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Self |

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While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

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