Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Poor men's money and cowards' weapons are often flourished.

Self |

Italian Proverbs

On every small pretext the wolf seizes the sheep.

Ability | Fault | Mind | Fault |

Italian Proverbs

Step by step one goes to Rome.

History |

Italian Proverbs

Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are.

Need |

Italian Proverbs

Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.

Consideration | Man | Nothing |

Italian Proverbs

No news is good news.

Innovation |

Italian Proverbs

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Affliction | Gloom | Light |

Italian Proverbs

One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

Mind | Need | People |

Italian Proverbs

She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.

Italian Proverbs

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Society | Success | Society |

Italian Proverbs

The devil is bad because he is old.

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

Italian Proverbs

The thief's wife does not always laugh.

Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |

Italian Proverbs

The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.

Mind |

Italian Proverbs

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

Harm | News | Rights |

Italian Proverbs

The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

Hope | World |

Italian Proverbs

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

Italian Proverbs

What shall I say when it is better to say nothing?

Body | Men | Mind | Reason |

Italian Proverbs

What costs little is little esteemed.

Enough | Humanity | Progress | Science | Will | Think |

Italian Proverbs

When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

Respect | Will | World | Respect |