Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

One today is worth two tomorrows.

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Society | Success | Society |

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ne with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die.

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One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.

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Action | Man | Prejudice | Reason |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Man |

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No day but has its evening.

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

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One is never too old to yearn.

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Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Never rub your eye but with your elbow.

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People get the government they deserve.

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Better | Love | Relationship | Understand |

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Italian Proverbs

The devil is bad because he is old.

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Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

The first blow is as good as two.

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Courage | Mankind | Men | Peace | Strength | Tears | Will |

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The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

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Man |

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Italian Proverbs

The thief's wife does not always laugh.

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Energy | Family | Little | Need | People | Regulation | Old |

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The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.

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Mind |

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Italian Proverbs

There goes more than one ass to market.

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Ideas | Love | Qualities | Blessed | Winning |

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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

To confessor, doctor, and lawyer do not hide the truth.

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Harm | News | Rights |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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The covetous man is good to none and worst to himself.

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The more one knows, the less one believes.

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Heart | Love | Will | Think |

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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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