Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Sometimes it is better to give your apple away, than to eat it yourself.

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Absolute | Belief |

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Softly, barber, the water scalds.

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Balance | Rights | System | Wise |

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Italian Proverbs

Needs must when the devil drives.

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Harmony | Object | Time |

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No one likes justice brought home to his own door.

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Sons may look and behave like their fathers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and daily.

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Belief | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.

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Money | Research | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

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Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

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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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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

To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.

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Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |

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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 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

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

We learn by teaching.

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Belief | Wife |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.

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Good | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

The wicked even hate vice in others.

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Important | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Respect | System | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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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Italian Proverbs

The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

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Future | Present | Time |

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