Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.”
“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707), Arch, Act i, Sc. 1.
“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.”
Source: The Naming
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
London: A Poem (1738) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/london2.html, lines 158–161
“The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?”
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.”
Book XXXIV, sec. 4
History of Rome
“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
As quoted in The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation (2007) by Shafique N. Virani, p. 28
