Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

One fool is enough in a house.

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Character | Suppression | Intellect |

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Italian Proverbs

The best is the enemy of the good.

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Sense |

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Italian Proverbs

No one ever became poor through giving alms.

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Art | Design | Sense | Technology | Thinking | Will | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

Rather have a little one for your friend, than a great one for your enemy.

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Order | Sense |

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Italian Proverbs

Thank you, pretty pussy, was the death of my cat.

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Death | Good | Hypothesis | Individual | Phenomena | Sense | Loss |

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Italian Proverbs

The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.

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Life | Life | Little | Practice | Precept | Sense | Govern |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Global | Sense |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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

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Italian Proverbs

The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.

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Italian Proverbs

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

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

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Body | Men | Mind | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.

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Global | Sense | Work |

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Italian Proverbs

Those who sleep don't catch any fish.

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Italian Proverbs

Where there is no adversity of some sort there is seldom anything to win; No or little adversity is a sign that fortune has forgotten you.

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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

Where there's a will there's a way.

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Mind | Thought | Thought |

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Italian Proverbs

What the eye sees not the heart rues not.

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Feelings | Mind | Mindfulness | Practice |

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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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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

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Curiosity | Error | Experience | Important | Life | Life | Nothing | Past | Pleasure | Price | Pride | Sense | Story | Teach | Time | Waiting | Will | Wrong |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

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Appreciation | Art | Faith | Heart | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mind | People | Religion | Appreciation | Art |

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