Kings

Tao expresses without fanfare,
Everything happens.
If the rich and powerful could understand this,
There would be peace, and enough for all.

If they acted with the tao,
Without presumptive goals and plans,
They might actually be of some use.
Abandon greed and expectations,
to find everything in place.

A cat may look at a king. An impertinent remark by an inferior, meaning, "I am as good as you." There was a political pamphlet published with this title in 1652.

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1963. p. 181.