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- When you sit to dine with a ruler, note well what is before you,
- and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.
- Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
- Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint.
- Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
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- Do not eat the food of a stingy man, do not crave his delicacies;
- for he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
- You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.
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