Great Throughts Treasury

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The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

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Will | World |

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We learn by teaching.

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Belief | Wife |

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The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.

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Hope | World |

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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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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 water breaks out where it is not expected.

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Truth |

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The liar needs a good memory.

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Think much, speak little and write less.

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Reform | World |

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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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When gold speaks every tongue is silent.

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

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When your devil was born, mine was going to school.

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Character | Truth |

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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 wine sinks, words swim.

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Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

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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

To protest and knock one's head against the wall is what everybody can do.

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Good | Ignorance | Truth |

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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Children | Day | Depression | Despair | Effort | Knowledge | Life | Life | Parents | Suicide | World | Wrong | Child |

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Where there is no temptation there is no glory.

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Need | People | World |

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The tongue has no bone but it breaks bone.

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Unique | World |

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When the cat's away, the mice will play.

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Self | Sense | World |

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Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.

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Love |

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