《三国志·吴书·陆逊传》
现在我们不努力实现富国强兵，致力于农耕储备粮食，让文武人才得以施展运用，上下官员府衙没有玩忽职守，明确官职升降制度以激励各级官吏，刑罚得当以彰显劝勉阻滞，以道德教育上下官员，用仁义安抚全国百姓，然后顺承天命，看准时机，收揽天下。若是放任将领们舍身求名，穷兵黩武，功辄耗费数以万计的军资费用，使士卒疲惫不堪，敌人并没有因此衰弱，而我方却已疲乏衰弱!
今不务富国强兵，力农畜谷，使文武之才效展其用，百揆之署无旷厥职，明黜陟以厉庶尹，审刑罚以示劝沮，训诸司以德，而抚百姓以仁，然后顺天乘运，席卷宇内，而听诸将徇名，穷兵黩武，动费万计，士卒彫瘁，寇不为衰，而我已大病矣！
Now, we are not striving to achieve a wealthy and powerful country, focus on farming and food reserves, enable civil and military talents to be used, ensure that officials at all levels do not neglect their duties, make clear the system of promotion and demotion of officials to motivate officials at all levels, enforce punishment appropriately to show encouragement and deterrence, educate officials at all levels with morality, comfort the people of the whole country with benevolence and righteousness, and then follow the destiny, find the right opportunity to take over the world. If we let generals risk their lives for fame, pursue military adventures, exhaust tens of thousands of military expenses, exhaust the soldiers, and the enemy is not weakened, but we are already exhausted and weak!