Great Throughts Treasury

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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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The liar needs a good memory.

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World |

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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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Men |

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Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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

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Force |

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Think much, speak little and write less.

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Reform | World |

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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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

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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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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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The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross.

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Important | Self-knowledge | Truths |

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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

Those who begin many things finish but a few.

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Defense | Respect | Science | Technology | Respect |

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

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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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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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Men |

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