You'll need to rent slaves and buy some silver cups. Show them off in public if you can. Use the same ones over and over, but try to hide that fact. Get fancy clothes and other flashy stuff. Act like important people respect you. Try to eat dinner at their houses, or at least make people think you do. Use cheap tricks to make yourself look better and more impressive than you really are. This is what you'll have to do if you choose the second path — the one where you don't want people to pity you.
It will be necessary for you to hire slaves and to possess a few silver vessels, and to exhibit them in public, if it is possible, though they are often the same, and to attempt to conceal the fact that they are the same, and to have splendid garments, and all other things for display, and to show that you are a man honored by the great, and to try to sup at their houses, or to be supposed to sup there, and as to your person to employ some mean arts, that you may appear to be more handsome and nobler than you are. These things you must contrive, if you choose to go by the second path in order not to be pitied.