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If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?
— Pietro Metastasio
Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.
— Pietro Metastasio
Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.
— Pietro Metastasio
The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.
— Pietro Metastasio
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.
— Pietro Metastasio
An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.
— Pietro Metastasio
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
— Pietro Metastasio
Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.
— Pietro Metastasio
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
— Pietro Metastasio
It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.
— Pietro Metastasio
High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
— Pietro Metastasio
It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.
— Pietro Metastasio
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
— Pietro Metastasio
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons
— Pietro Metastasio