No man is a hero to his valet.[Il n’y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.] Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel (1605–1694) French wit and aphorist Lettres de Mlle Aïssé, 12.13 (1728) (Source) See Montaigne (1586), Goethe (1805).For discussion on this and related quotes, see here.
