Proverbs from all Tuscan speaking parts of the world.

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  • La natura può più dell'arte.
    • English equivalent: Nature is beyond all teaching.
    • "There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind."
    • Confucius, Analects (~ 300 BC), Book XVII, Chapter VIII.
    • Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 764. ISBN 0415096243. 

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  • Il medico pietoso fa la piaga puzzolente.
    • English equivalent: Mild physician – putrid wounds.
    • "Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow."
    • Elbert Hubbard (1907). The Motto Book.
    • Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 710. ISBN 0415096243. 

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  • Ne' fiori cova la serpe.
    • Idiomatic translation: Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep.
    • Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 1070. ISBN 0415096243. 

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