Pietro Metastasio famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Love #Heart #Choices
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].
-- Pietro Metastasio

#Grief #Would Be #Inward
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons
-- Pietro Metastasio

#Errors #Ignorant #Wonder
Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,--why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?
-- Pietro Metastasio

#Heart #Cry #Sin
Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.
-- Pietro Metastasio

#Sacrifice #Offering #Soul
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.
-- Pietro Metastasio

#Flower #Disease #Fruit
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
-- Pietro Metastasio

#Flower #Bees #Serpent
High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
-- Pietro Metastasio

#Birth #Virtue #Accidents
An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.
-- Pietro Metastasio

#Warrior #Blow #Haste
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
-- Pietro Metastasio

#Kindness #Men #Envy
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
-- Pietro Metastasio

#Fear #Risk #Noble

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