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  Quotes by Metastasio, Pietro




Pietro Trapassi (January 13, 1698 April 12, 1782), Italian poet, is better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio..

"High birth is an accident, not a virtue."

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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."

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