Great Throughts Treasury

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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

The right man comes at the right time.

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Government | Looks | Means | Opportunity | Safe | Worry | Government | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.

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Good | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

The wicked even hate vice in others.

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Important | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.

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Memory | Time | Truth |

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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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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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Italian Proverbs

The tree is not felled at one blow.

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Attention | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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

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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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Italian Proverbs

Who by himself can do anything, do not wait for others to do.

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Commitment | Good | Means | Mystery | Object | Religion |

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Italian Proverbs

To move heaven and earth.

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War | Will | Value |

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Italian Proverbs

Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

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Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

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Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

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Italian Proverbs

The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

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Future | Present | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

Things that has happened will happen again. Religious myths for example, which are allegorical, will per definition reoccur.

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