Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

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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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Italian Proverbs

Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.

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Men | Pain | Will |

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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

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

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Who has no money must have no wishes.

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Men | Worry |

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The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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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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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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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 liar needs a good memory.

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The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver.

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Italian Proverbs

Think much, speak little and write less.

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Reform | World |

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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

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 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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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Children | Day | Depression | Despair | Effort | Knowledge | Life | Life | Parents | Suicide | World | Wrong | Child |

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Italian Proverbs

Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

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Need | People | World |

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Italian Proverbs

Who is in the right fears, who is in the wrong hopes.

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Italian Proverbs

The tongue has no bone but it breaks bone.

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Unique | World |

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