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- Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
- Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Strategic Assessments
- The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.
- Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Planning a Siege
- Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
- Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Emptiness and Fullness
- Whom the gods love dies young.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), The Double Deceiver
- Deus ex machina [A god from the machine]
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
- The man who runs may fight again.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), Monostikoi (Single Lines)
- Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
- Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
- Bion (~100 BC), from Plutarch, Water and Land Animals
- Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
- Pyrrhus (319 BC - 272 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
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