Great Throughts Treasury

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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

What shall I say when it is better to say nothing?

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Body | Men | Mind | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

The water breaks out where it is not expected.

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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

When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

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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

When your devil was born, mine was going to school.

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Character | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

The Trojans were wise too late.

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Italian Proverbs

What costs little is little esteemed.

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Enough | Humanity | Progress | Science | Will | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

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Respect | Will | World | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

When wine sinks, words swim.

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Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.

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Italian Proverbs

To protest and knock one's head against the wall is what everybody can do.

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Good | Ignorance | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has no courage must have legs.

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Italian Proverbs

Words are female, deeds are male.

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Creed | Disbelief | God | Truth | Will | God |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.

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Children | Global | Government | Labor | People | Rights | War | Government |

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