Let your eyes fly to it and it is gone: wealth sprouts wings for itself and flies off to the sky like an eagle.
In context
3Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is a lie. 4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the sense to stop. 5Let your eyes fly to it and it is gone: wealth sprouts wings for itself and flies off to the sky like an eagle. 6Do not eat the bread of a grudging man, and do not crave his delicacies, 7for he is the sort who keeps count within himself. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
