Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

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Right | Wrong | Trouble | Think |

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So good that he is good for nothing.

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Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

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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The fruit of a good tree is also good.

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Need | People | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

The thief's wife does not always laugh.

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Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |

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Italian Proverbs

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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Italian Proverbs

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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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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Italian Proverbs

To every saint his torch.

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Effort | Good | Hope | Important | Question |

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The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger.

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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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Who has no shame all the world is his own.

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Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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Italian Proverbs

When the devil is old he turns hermit.

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Character | Effort |

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Italian Proverbs

The world is governed with little brains.

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Italian Proverbs

The sons of cats catch mice.

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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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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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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

The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.

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Administration | Decision | Global | Health | Policy | Right | Rights | Struggle |

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