Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it.

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Better | Opinion | Question | World |

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Italian Proverbs

There is no helping him who will not be advised.

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Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has a head of wax should not be in the sunshine.

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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Italian Proverbs

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Will | World |

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Italian Proverbs

There are many roads to Rome.

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Anger | Enough | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

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Character | Display | Will |

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The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

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Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

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Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.

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Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |

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There is never enough where nought is left.

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Better | Change | Motives | Work | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.

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Harm | News | Rights |

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Italian Proverbs

The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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Italian Proverbs

When one door closes another opens.

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Play | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

The house completed, possession defeated.

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Will | Woman |

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Italian Proverbs

The covetous man is good to none and worst to himself.

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Italian Proverbs

The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The liar needs a good memory.

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Italian Proverbs

The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.

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Global | Sense | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Where passion is high, reason is low.

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Proverbs | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

The tree is not felled at one blow.

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Attention | Will |

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