Quotes by Pietro Metastasio

Pietro Metastasio

Italian poet and librettist

Lived from: 1698 - 1782

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: Italy

Born: 3 january 1698 Died: 12 april 1782

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

  ― Pietro Metastasio
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• High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

  ― Pietro Metastasio
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Subjects in these quotes:

• acquisition
• encounter
• accident
• obtain
• virtue
• birth

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