Frases de Pietro Metastasio

“Hay que saber adaptarse a la suerte de cada uno.”

“Si las íntimas preocupaciones de cada cual se leyeran escritas sobre su frente,! cuántos que causan envidia nos moverían lástima!.”

“¿Quién puede vanagloriarse de no tener defectos? Examinando los suyos, aprenda cada uno a perdonar los de los demás.”

“Usar de venganza con el más fuerte es locura, con el igual es peligroso, y con el inferior es vileza.”

“El temor y la esperanza nacen juntos y juntos mueren.”

“Nunca se teme bastante al confiar en otro.”

“Si todo el mundo llevara escritas en la frente sus angustias, muchos que nos causan envidia nos darían lástima.”

“What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turbid at its source?”

“The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.”

“In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course. To the pilgrim often a single footstep suffices to enable him to find his way across the bewildering plain.”

“To take away life is a power which the vilest of the earth have in common; to give it belongs to gods and kings alone.”

“If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied!”

“The fiery lava in the hollow bosom of the earth, if it be restrained, in spite of its prison, bursts forth with greater force; then flows abroad, but, as it flows, subverts, beats down, and overthrows plains, mountains, forests, and cities.”

“That water which falls from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall.”

“Know that the slender shrub which is seen to bend, conquers when it yields to the storm.”