Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.

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Respect | System | Respect |

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Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail.

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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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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The seemingly most respectable people are quiet often scoundrels; Evil people often act innocently.

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The liar needs a good memory.

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The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.

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Global | Sense | Work |

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Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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When the danger has passed, the saints are soon forgotten.

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Italian Proverbs

Think much, speak little and write less.

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Reform | World |

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Those who sleep don't catch any fish.

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Sense |

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Italian Proverbs

Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

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

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Italian Proverbs

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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

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Italian Proverbs

The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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Italian Proverbs

When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

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Respect | Will | World | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

Where there is no adversity of some sort there is seldom anything to win; No or little adversity is a sign that fortune has forgotten you.

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Sense |

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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

Those who begin many things finish but a few.

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Defense | Respect | Science | Technology | Respect |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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