When you sit down to dine with a ruler, mark well the one who is before you;
Do you see those skilled at their work? They will stand in the presence of kings, but not in the presence of the obscure.
Stick the knife in your gullet if you have a ravenous appetite.
These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.