Quote:
Eheu! quam infortunii miserrimum est fuisse felicem!


Can anyone translate?

For context: It was written on the wall of a stable by a young and in debt S. T. Coleridge while serving in the 15th Light Dragoons as a stable hand, having failed to secure a much-needed scholarship, having been expelled from Cambridge, having failed to win the Irish lottery. (In pursuit of this last mad hope he had even beseeched an unsympathetic Lady Fortune in a poem published in a London newspaper).