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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.


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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
(Indeed, wretched the man whose fame mak...
LUCIUS ACCIUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;...
CHARLES CHURCHILL With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDER Let them hate so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear. [Lat., Oderint, dum metuant.]
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant)
LUCIUS ACCIUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
JUVENAL I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.
BOB MARLEY Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I am nothing more than a wretched man that needs God's mercy and grace. I am redeemed by the blood o...
NORM TOMLINSON Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
VOLTAIRE [Hurley, whose most famous film is] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, ... Four Weddings a...
HUGH GRANT Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting e...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting e...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The position of famous person sometimes makes his words look like quotes.
ANUJ SOMANY History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
EDWARD GIBBON History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
EDWARD GIBBON I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
EMILY DICKINSON For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
AESCHYLUS The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be fam...
J. K. ROWLING Oh wretched man!Who can deliver him from the wretch called sin.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,-- Man's inhumanity to man Make...
ROBERT BURNS Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him...
JOHN KEATS The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from hi...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame.
JOHN GAY Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by...
HIMMILICIOUS I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.
JOHN GAY I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame
JOHN GAY Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
PETER CAREY The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW God makes Man, His first priority.
But, Man makes God his last resort.
CEASAR RODRIGUEZ, JR. Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.
THOMAS FULLER A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but end...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
ERNST MORITZ ARNDT There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man wh...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I don't know how to dress girls, I know how to dress women
BETH FANTASKEY I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come...
KAT DENNINGS A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.
VICTOR HUGO Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning
MIDRASH Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...
CHARLES DICKENS Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...
CHARLES DICKENS People of fame usually wish they were regular, while the average person wishes they were famous.
ROBERT ADAMS It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, ...
UNKNOWN If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.
JUSTIN THEROUX Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagre...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they d...
DR. SEUSS Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
MARJORIE HOLMES And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his ch...
JUSTIN CRONIN The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only tho...
SUN-TZU The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only tho...
SUN TZU My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be ...
JOEL MCHALE I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work i...
ARTHUR GOLDEN I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfor...
THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the god...
EMPEDOCLES A man whose heart gets broken easily finds his mind awakened.
ANUJ SOMANY The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself t...
BLAISE PASCAL There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
HELEN VENDLER Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
FRANCESCA ANNIS Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...
EURIPIDES Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...
EURIPEDES Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. AUDEN Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The 'Hall of Fame' says a lot — that the trucks are famous and the people that drove them are famo...
DAVE MEIER The 'Hall of Fame' says a lot — that the trucks are famous and the people that drove them are famou...
DAVE MEIER [One letter writer said Hunter may turn out to be the most famous Kelly, even more so than his fathe...
JIM KELLY It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happene...
BO BURNHAM For the one whose association improves, everything indeed improves. Everything indeed gets ruined, f...
DADA BHAGWAN There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
CARL VAN VECHTEN There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
CARL VECHTEN Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
PLAUTUS Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
UNKNOWN It's not the institution which makes its students famous but the students who achieve great heights ...
AMIT ABRAHAM If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.
JOSH HOMME Fame is a bitch, man.
BRAD PITT A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
CHINESE PROVERB A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
CHINESE PROVERB A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
GRANTLAND RICE His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have call...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have ca...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are 'nuclear waste' from the fuel that makes stars shine; indeed, each of us contains ato...
MARTIN REES It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.
OLD CHINESE PROVERB Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.
EMILE GABORIAU It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
RALPH STEADMAN We are at the beginning of something great and you will be the ones that knew us first.
SIMON FREUND

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LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS Let them hate so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear. [Lat., Oderint, dum metuant.]
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant)
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SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
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SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam...
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SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The whole discord of this world consists in discords. [Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discord...
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SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat, Docet negare.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigun...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non spo...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness. [Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu v...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Poison is drunk out of gold. [Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Q...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium si...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insa...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare qu...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]
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