Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Italian Proverbs

Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.

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Consideration | Man | Nothing |

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One good morsel and a hundred vexations.

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Mind | Need | People |

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So many countries, so many customs.

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People | Position | Rule | Speech |

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Penny and penny laid up will be many.

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Diversity | People | Understanding | Understand |

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Saying is one thing, doing another.

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Goals | People | Pleasure | Progress | Success | Work |

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One must have been controlled in the same situation one wishes to properly control others.

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Change | People | World | Think |

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Skill or fortune will efface the spots.

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Evidence | Feelings | Little | People | Understand |

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Shame take him that shame thinketh.

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Love | People |

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Starting properly ensures the speedy completion of a process. A beginning is often blocked by one or more obstacles (potential barriers) the removal of which may ensure the smooth course of the process.

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Office | People | Question | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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People | Present | Relationship |

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Italian Proverbs

On a long journey even a straw is heavy.

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Enough | Good | Man |

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That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

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Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

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The fear of war is worse than war itself.

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Ability | Reason | Story | Thinking |

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Italian Proverbs

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Precocious children will mean much trouble later on.

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People | Gossip |

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Italian Proverbs

Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.

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Italian Proverbs

No one ever kicks a dead dog.

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Art | Means | People | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

One who makes his bed must lie in it.

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Determination | People | Will | Work |

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Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.

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No day but has its evening.

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Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |

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