1. When you sit down to dine with a ruler,carefully consider what is in front of you.
2. Place a knife at your throatto control your appetite.
3. Don’t long for the ruler’s delicacies;the food misleads.
4. Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich;be smart enough to stop.
5. When your eyes fly to wealthit is gone; it grows wingslike an eagle and flies heavenward.
6. Don’t eat food with stingy people;don’t long for their delicacies,
7. because they are like a hair in the throat.They say to you, "Eat and drink!"but they don’t mean it.
8. You will eat scraps and vomit them out.You will waste your pleasant words.
9. Don’t speak in the ears of fools,for they will scorn your insightful words.
10. Don’t remove an ancient boundary marker;don’t invade the fields of orphans,