Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

We learn by teaching.

Belief | Wife |

Italian Proverbs

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

Good | Time |

Italian Proverbs

The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

Public | Question |

Italian Proverbs

The wicked even hate vice in others.

Important | Time |

Italian Proverbs

There is never enough where nought is left.

Better | Change | Motives | Work | Understand |

Italian Proverbs

The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

Hope | World |

Italian Proverbs

There is no appeal from time past.

Good |

Italian Proverbs

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

Memory | Time | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

Who has no children does not know what love is.

Hope | Order | Space |

Italian Proverbs

Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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

Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Evil | God | Hope | Justice | Will | World | God |

Italian Proverbs

The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

Future | Present | Time |

Italian Proverbs

The Trojans were wise too late.

Important |

Italian Proverbs

Things that has happened will happen again. Religious myths for example, which are allegorical, will per definition reoccur.

Time |

Italian Proverbs

The salt of patience seasons everything.

Italian Proverbs

To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.

Italian Proverbs

When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.

Time |

Italian Proverbs

Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

Need | People | World |

Italian Proverbs

Virtue comes not from chance but long study.

Memory | Time |

Italian Proverbs

Water after does not quench a fire at hand.

Time | Unity | Think |