Great Throughts Treasury

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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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Italian Proverbs

One devil drives out another.

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Better | Organization | Virtue | Virtue |

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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 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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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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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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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Respect | System | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

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

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Italian Proverbs

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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