Great Throughts Treasury

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Hannah Arendt

Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity he among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?

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Italian Proverbs

One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds.

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Change | Civilization | Future | Global | Health | Inconvenient | Land | Security | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

Still water breeds vermin.

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Fear | Future | Hope | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Never was a mewing cat a good mouser.

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Future | Passion |

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Italian Proverbs

Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up.

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Future | Hope |

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Italian Proverbs

One should learn to sail in all winds.

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Future | Will |

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Italian Proverbs

The difficult thing is to get foot in the stirrup.

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Books | Future | Wonder | Words |

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Italian Proverbs

One can't enter Paradise in spite of the saints.

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Calmness | Future | Good |

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Italian Proverbs

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

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Experience | Nature | Organization |

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Italian Proverbs

Nothing venture, nothing have.

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Comfort | God | Light | Looks | God |

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Italian Proverbs

When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

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Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

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Italian Proverbs

The right man comes at the right time.

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Government | Looks | Means | Opportunity | Safe | Worry | Government | Think |

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Italian Proverbs

Who has patience sees his revenge.

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Enough | Nature |

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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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Italian Proverbs

The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

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Future | Present | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

The right hand is slave to the left.

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Business | Nature | Worth | Business |

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Italian Proverbs

With so many roosters crowing, the sun never comes up.

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Insight | Nature | Teach | Unique | World |

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Italian Proverbs

You surround your vineyard with thorns - place doors and locks on your mouth. You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults.

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Change | Human nature | Life | Life | Nature | Reality | Religion | Truth | Will |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

All's well that ends better.

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Day | Looks | Merit | Will | Child |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

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Experience | God | Human nature | Life | Life | Nature | Sense | God |

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