Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

The best defense is a good offence.

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Time | Learn |

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The eye of the master fattens the horse.

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Experience | Life | Life | Principles | Psychology | Time | Youth | Youth |

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Muddy water won't do for a mirror.

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Terror | War |

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Italian Proverbs

Much water passes by the mill that the miller perceives not.

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Need | War |

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Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

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Care | Heart |

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That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.

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People | Present | Relationship |

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Needs must when the devil drives.

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Harmony | Object | Time |

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No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.

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Money | Research | Time |

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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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The devil is bad because he is old.

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Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

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There is no helping him who will not be advised.

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Enough | History | Justice | Time | Will |

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To the person with little shame, the whole world is his.

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Capacity | Self | Time | Unity |

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The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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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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Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

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Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

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

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

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Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.

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Good | Time |

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The wicked even hate vice in others.

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Important | Time |

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The man who loves is easy of belief.

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Heart |

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

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Memory | Time | Truth |

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