Great Throughts Treasury

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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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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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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

Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.

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Men | Pain | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.

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Italian Proverbs

There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more to shave from it.

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Better | Opinion | Question | World |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has a head of wax should not be in the sunshine.

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World |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has no money must have no wishes.

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Men | Worry |

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Italian Proverbs

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Will | World |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has no shame all the world is his own.

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Power |

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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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Italian Proverbs

The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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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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Italian Proverbs

The liar needs a good memory.

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World |

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The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver.

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Men |

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Think much, speak little and write less.

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Reform | World |

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Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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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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