Great Throughts Treasury

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Italian Proverbs

So good that he is good for nothing.

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Effort | Good | Internet | People | Power | Promise | Time |

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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

Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.

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Government | Guilt | People | Public | Truth | Warning | Government |

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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

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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The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Will | World |

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Who has no shame all the world is his own.

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To a crazy ship every wind is contrary.

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Inevitable | News | Public | Talking |

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The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.

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Public | Question |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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Italian Proverbs

There's no going to heaven in a sedan.

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People | Public |

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The liar needs a good memory.

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Italian Proverbs

Think much, speak little and write less.

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Reform | World |

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Italian Proverbs

Today me, tomorrow thee.

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Individual | People | Power |

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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

Two cocks in one yard do not agree.

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Battle | Commitment | Faith | Need | Public | Reality | Religion | Will | Guilty |

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When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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

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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

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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