Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

One enemy is too many and a hundred friends aren't enough.

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Learning | Need | Will | Teacher |

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That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

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Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

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Experience | Nature | Organization |

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The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority.

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Life | Life |

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Italian Proverbs

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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That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

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Dawn | Evolution | History | Individual | Life | Life | Sense | Survival | Truth |

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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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The fruit of a good tree is also good.

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Need | People | Understand |

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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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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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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

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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War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

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Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |

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Italian Proverbs

When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

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Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has never done thinking never begins doing.

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Control | Story |

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Who has patience sees his revenge.

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Enough | Nature |

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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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Italian Proverbs

The world is governed with little brains.

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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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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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