Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
Pietro MetastasioIt 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 MetastasioThe eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.
Pietro Metastasio