Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

t is better to ride a donkey that carries you than a horse that throws you.

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Change | Opinion | Public |

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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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The first blow is as good as two.

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Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |

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The fruit of a good tree is also good.

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Need | People | Understand |

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The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

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The light is painful to sore eyes.

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God | Religion | Respect | Will | Respect | God |

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The thief's wife does not always laugh.

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

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Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.

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Government | Guilt | People | Public | Truth | Warning | Government |

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Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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

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Men | Pain | Will |

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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

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

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People |

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What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.

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Hope | People | Understanding |

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Italian Proverbs

Who excuses himself accuses himself.

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People | Philosophy |

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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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There are many roads to Rome.

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Anger | Enough | Will |

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Tis good feasting in other men's houses.

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Trust not the praise of a friend nor the contempt of an enemy.

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Good | People |

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