Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.

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Efficiency | Knowledge | Money | World |

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Italian Proverbs

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

No woman ever speaks the naked truth.

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Neutrality |

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Italian Proverbs

One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

The devil is bad because he is old.

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Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

The sun is still beautiful, though ready to set.

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Wants | Work |

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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

The same fire purifies gold and consumes straw.

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Vision | Work |

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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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World |

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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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Italian Proverbs

Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.

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Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

There is never enough where nought is left.

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Better | Change | Motives | Work | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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Italian Proverbs

The liar needs a good memory.

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World |

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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

Where passion is high, reason is low.

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Proverbs | Work |

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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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