Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

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Character | Display | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.

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Harm | News | Rights |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has patience sees his revenge.

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Enough | Nature |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.

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Memory | Time | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

When one door closes another opens.

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Play | Will |

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When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

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Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The house completed, possession defeated.

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Will | Woman |

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The covetous man is good to none and worst to himself.

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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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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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Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

The world is governed with little brains.

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Need |

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Italian Proverbs

The liar needs a good memory.

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Italian Proverbs

The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.

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Global | Sense | Work |

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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

Think much, speak little and write less.

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Reform | World |

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Italian Proverbs

Those who sleep don't catch any fish.

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Sense |

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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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