《智囊(选录)·胆智部·班超》
班超支开侍卫官后，立即召集所有部属共三十六人一起商议，他们一边饮酒一边交换意见，当大家半醉时，班超突然慷慨激昂地说： 诸位跟我一同来到西域，目的是为朝廷建立功业并求个人富贵。现在匈奴使者才到几天，鄯善王广对我们的态度就如此冷淡，如果鄯善王把我们逮捕后交给匈奴，那我们的骨骸岂不是将变成豺狼的食物吗？诸位对这事有何高见？ 
超乃闭侍胡，悉会其吏士三十六人，与共饮，酒酣，因激怒之曰： 卿曹与我俱在西域，欲立大功以求富贵，今虏使到数日，而王广礼敬即废，如令鄯善收吾属送匈奴，骸骨长为豺狼食矣，为之奈何？ 
After sending the bodyguard away, Ban Chao immediately called together all his men, thirty-six in total, to discuss the situation. As they drank wine and exchanged opinions, Ban Chao, when they were half-drunk, suddenly rose to his feet and said, with great passion, “My fellow comrades, I came with you to the Western Regions in order to serve the court and enrich ourselves. Now, just a few days since the Xiongnu envoy arrived, the Shanshan King Guang has become so cold towards us. If the Shanshan King arrests us and hands us over to the Xiongnu, will not our skeletons become food for the wolves? What do you gentlemen think we should do?”