FastSaying
Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam Ignavis etiam jocus est in casu gravi.]
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Misfortune
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