Fame Quote by Lucius Accius

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

— Publius Attius Varus

“Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.”

— Lucius Accius

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

— Juvenal

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

— Martial

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

— Dante Alighieri

“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of…

— Oscar Wilde

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

— Homer

“A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.”

— Victor Hugo

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

— Victor Hugo

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

— George Eliot

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

— Friedrich Schiller