What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Horace

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod