Great Throughts Treasury

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

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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

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

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The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

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Respect | System | Respect |

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Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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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 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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Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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Absence | Atheism | History | Means | Prayer | Public | Research | Rule |

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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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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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The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

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Future | Present | Time |

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