Great Throughts Treasury

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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 gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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

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Italian Proverbs

The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

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Future | Present | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

Things that has happened will happen again. Religious myths for example, which are allegorical, will per definition reoccur.

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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 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

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

When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.

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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

Virtue comes not from chance but long study.

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Memory | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

Water after does not quench a fire at hand.

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Time | Unity | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

The right hand is slave to the left.

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Business | Nature | Worth | Business |

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Italian Proverbs

The tongue has no bone but it breaks bone.

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Unique | World |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Italian Proverbs

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

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Self | Sense | World |

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Italian Proverbs

Words are female, deeds are male.

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Creed | Disbelief | God | Truth | Will | God |

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J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilizations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.

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Age | Boys | Magic | Time | Vision |

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