The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
What's well begun is half done.
You are judged of by what you possess.
Joking apart, now let us be serious.