Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Some things can be improved by training, others require innate talent.

Modesty | Teach | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

Speak well of your friend; of your enemy neither well nor ill.

Global | Sense |

Italian Proverbs

That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

Dawn | Evolution | History | Individual | Life | Life | Sense | Survival | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.

Government | Guilt | People | Public | Truth | Warning | Government |

Italian Proverbs

There is no helping him who will not be advised.

Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |

Italian Proverbs

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.

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

Italian Proverbs

There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.

Disgrace | Think |

Italian Proverbs

When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

Italian Proverbs

Who has no shame all the world is his own.

Power |

Italian Proverbs

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

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

Italian Proverbs

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

Harm | News | Rights |

Italian Proverbs

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

Respect | System | Respect |

Italian Proverbs

Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.

Memory | Time | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.

Dishonesty | Life | Life | Little | People | Reason | Self | Sense | Truth | Words | Think |

Italian Proverbs

The water breaks out where it is not expected.

Truth |

Italian Proverbs

The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.

Global | Sense | Work |

Italian Proverbs

The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.

Italian Proverbs

Those who sleep don't catch any fish.

Sense |

Italian Proverbs

Today me, tomorrow thee.

Individual | People | Power |

Italian Proverbs

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Childhood | People | Personality |