Great Throughts Treasury

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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

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.

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Better | Ethics | People |

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Italian Proverbs

The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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Italian Proverbs

When in trouble first of all every one himself should do his best to improve his condition.

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Good | People |

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Italian Proverbs

Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel.

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People | Personality |

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Italian Proverbs

There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

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People | Public |

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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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Where there is great love there is great pain.

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Good | People | Right |

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There is a cause for all things.

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Intelligence | People |

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Italian Proverbs

There's no getting to heaven in a coach.

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Censor | Fear | People | 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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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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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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Italian Proverbs

Who by himself can do anything, do not wait for others to do.

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Commitment | Good | Means | Mystery | Object | Religion |

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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

When wine sinks, words swim.

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Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

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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 is no temptation there is no glory.

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Need | People | World |

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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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