Quotes by Pietro Metastasio

Pietro Metastasio

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.

Blow

Haste

Warrior

Cowards’ weapons neither cut nor pierce.

Coward

Cutting

Weapons

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Fear

Risk

Trying

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.

School

Way

Wind

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Ancestry

Birth

Virtue

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

Errors

Ignorant

Wonder

If every man’s internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

Envy

Kindness

Men

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!].

Grief

Inward

Would Be

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

Grief

Happiness

Would Be

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?

Envy

Grief

Men

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Quotes by Pietro Metastasio

Pietro Metastasio

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.

Cowards’ weapons neither cut nor pierce.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

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.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

If every man’s internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

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!].

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

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?

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