Prosperity has this property it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress and then becomes more bright and c. Plutarch
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. English Proverb
Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small. Traditional Proverb