Great Throughts Treasury

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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

The mills of god grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

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Comfort | Time | Will | Loss |

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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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Very seldom does any good thing arise but there comes an ugly phantom of a caricature of it.

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Birth | Childhood | Death | Irony | Paradox | Religion | Time | Work |

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When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.

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While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.

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

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Good | Time |

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The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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Italian Proverbs

The wicked even hate vice in others.

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Important | Time |

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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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Italian Proverbs

Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it.

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Enough | Self |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Memory | Time | Truth |

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Italian Proverbs

Who hath no courage must have legs.

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Events | War |

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

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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

Today for me, and tomorrow for you.

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Judgment | Wrong |

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Italian Proverbs

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

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Force |

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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

The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.

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Future | Present | Time |

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Italian Proverbs

The Trojans were wise too late.

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Important |

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