Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

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Character | Display | Will |

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When the head aches all the members languish.

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Death | Order |

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Who has no shame all the world is his own.

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Power |

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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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When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

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While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

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The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

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Respect | System | Respect |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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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 more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.

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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

Who has no children does not know what love is.

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Hope | Order | Space |

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Italian Proverbs

The liar needs a good memory.

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World |

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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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