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- When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you,
- And put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite.
- Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food.
- Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your consideration of it.
- When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
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- Do not eat the bread of a selfish man, Or desire his delicacies;
- For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, "Eat and drink!" But his heart is not with you.
- You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments.
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