Tuscan proverbs

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. 

See also

• Bolognese proverbs
• Corsican proverbs
• Italian proverbs
• Lombard proverbs
• Milanese proverbs
• Neapolitan proverbs
• Piedmontese proverbs
• Romagnol proverbs
• Sardinian proverbs
• Sicilian proverbs
• Tuscan proverbs
• Venetian Proverbs