“If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“3908. Poverty is not a Shame; but the being asham'd of it, is.”
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)
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