Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.

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Better | Ethics | People |

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When in trouble first of all every one himself should do his best to improve his condition.

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Good | People |

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Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel.

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People | Personality |

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There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

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People | Public |

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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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Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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There is a cause for all things.

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Intelligence | People |

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There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | Think |

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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross.

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Important | Self-knowledge | Truths |

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Who buys land buys war.

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Emotions | Thought | Thought |

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

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Absence | Atheism | Awareness | Awe | Cause | Fortune | Good | Gratitude | Ideas | Important | Insight | Language | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Myth | Need | Nothing | Object | Power | Prosperity | Question | Reality | Religion | Reputation | Reverence | Right | Sacred | Sense | Truth | Understanding | World | Awareness | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

Those who begin many things finish but a few.

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Defense | Respect | Science | Technology | Respect |

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Weddings and spiritual matters are heaven sent.

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Life | Life | Thought | Thought |

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Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

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Need | People | World |

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Where there's a will there's a way.

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Mind | Thought | Thought |

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Water after does not quench a fire at hand.

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Time | Unity | Think |

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The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool.

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Language | People | Words |

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There is no rule without an exception.

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People | Work | Think |

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