Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The tree is not felled at one blow.

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Attention | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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

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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

To move heaven and earth.

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War | Will | Value |

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Italian Proverbs

Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

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Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Childhood | People | Personality |

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Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

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Italian Proverbs

The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.

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Administration | Decision | Global | Health | Policy | Right | Rights | Struggle |

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Italian Proverbs

The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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Italian Proverbs

What costs little is little esteemed.

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

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Respect | Will | World | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

When wine sinks, words swim.

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Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

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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 salt of patience seasons everything.

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Italian Proverbs

Those who begin many things finish but a few.

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Defense | Respect | Science | Technology | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.

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Italian Proverbs

Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

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Need | People | World |

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Italian Proverbs

The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool.

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Language | People | Words |

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Italian Proverbs

There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

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Will |

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