Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Consideration | Man | Nothing |

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None so deaf as those who will not hear.

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Beauty | Gloom | Humanity | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will | Beauty |

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

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Ability | Coercion | Power |

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The difficult thing is to get foot in the stirrup.

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Books | Future | Wonder | Words |

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Italian Proverbs

One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends are too few.

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Mystery | Society | Society |

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Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

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Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

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Starting properly ensures the speedy completion of a process. A beginning is often blocked by one or more obstacles (potential barriers) the removal of which may ensure the smooth course of the process.

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Office | People | Question | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

On a long journey even a straw is heavy.

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Enough | Good | Man |

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Italian Proverbs

My No is as good as your Yes.

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Think |

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Italian Proverbs

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.

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Man |

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Italian Proverbs

Old friends are always new.

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Books | Character |

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Italian Proverbs

No day but has its evening.

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Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |

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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 liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

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Man |

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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

There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it.

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Better | Opinion | Question | World |

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Italian Proverbs

To every saint his torch.

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Effort | Good | Hope | Important | Question |

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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

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

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

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