Daily quote by Lucius Accius

• Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
  • He only is a wretched man,
    Whose own renown has made his woes renowned.
  • Fragment of Telephus, quoted by Nonius, 352, 5 (tr. Warmington)
  • Jon R. Stone, The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations (2005), p. 49:

    Wretched, indeed, is the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.