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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No one ever kicks a dead dog.

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Art | Means | People | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

Speak of the Devil and he appears.

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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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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

When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.

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Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |

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Italian Proverbs

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

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Authenticity | Good | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mystery | Thought | Worth | Thought |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has a head of wax should not be in the sunshine.

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Italian Proverbs

The right man comes at the right time.

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Government | Looks | Means | Opportunity | Safe | Worry | Government | Think |

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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's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The mother of idiots is always pregnant.

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Fear |

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Italian Proverbs

Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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

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Italian Proverbs

Who by himself can do anything, do not wait for others to do.

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Commitment | Good | Means | Mystery | Object | Religion |

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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

The well-fed man does not believe in hunger.

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Means | Public | System |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

Who hath little shame the world is all his own.

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Danger | Extreme | Fear | Danger |

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Italian Proverbs

Where there is nothing to gain, there is a lot to lose.

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Example | Knowledge | Light | Think |

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