Great Throughts Treasury

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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 woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver.

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Italian Proverbs

Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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Italian Proverbs

When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

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Italian Proverbs

Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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Italian Proverbs

Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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

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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

The Trojans were wise too late.

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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

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

Who is in the right fears, who is in the wrong hopes.

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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 is no rule without an exception.

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People | Work | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

To a young heart everything is sport.

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People | Public |

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Italian Proverbs

When the sun is highest it casts the least shadow.

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Good | Gratitude | Important | Nothing | People | Practice | Religion |

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

And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.

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Children | Global | Government | Labor | People | Rights | War | Government |

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