Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up.

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Future | Hope |

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Italian Proverbs

Much smoke, and little roast.

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Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

Not all truths are proper to be told.

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Life | Life |

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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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Italian Proverbs

Nothing venture, nothing have.

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Comfort | God | Light | Looks | God |

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The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority.

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Life | Life |

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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

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

Two women and a goose make a market.

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Doubt | Irony | Life | Life | Means | Need | Plenty | Self | Superiority | Understanding | Work | World | Afraid |

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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

What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.

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Hope | People | Understanding |

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Italian Proverbs

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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Italian Proverbs

The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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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

Who has no children does not know what love is.

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Hope | Order | Space |

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Italian Proverbs

Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.

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Life | Life |

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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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