With number 108 and with a slightly altered title, this work of Plutarch appears in the well-known catalog of Lambri's works as one of his 227 valuable ethical and historical writings.

This work, with an anthology of wise "sayings" or characteristic expressions of general interest or simple recording of memorable actions or events in the projection of the future, achieves a very significant ethical result, since the first teachers or the first ones who reacted or solved various problems in everyday life or in the fields of exercise of power or in the conflicts in the parliament or in the fields of battles, the signing of peace treaties, and generally in all kinds of conflicts, are the famous ones of classical, Alexandrian, and Roman times, Persians (initially), Greeks and Romans, from Artaxerxes and Cyrus to Themistocles, Pericles, Pelopidas, Alexander, Epaminondas, and later (for the Romans) from Manius Curius, Fabius Maximus, etc., to Julius Caesar, Cicero, and Augustus.

There are many reasons that justify the questioning of the authenticity of the work for Plutarch. It has a rather laconic expression (perhaps due to the nature of its content, the long periodic and subordinate speech is missing, which Plutarch handles with great success as an Atticist, the characteristic outbursts and deductions and origins known from the "Parallel Lives" that the editions "Zitros" of Thessaloniki delivered to the reading public of the country, without sparing expense and effort, but with great satisfaction for the great response they received.

Whatever the truth about the authenticity of this work with the sayings of kings and generals, it is a fact that they leave the scent of strong ethical armament, intelligence, and usefulness in the public and private life of rulers and leaders throughout history.

We particularly note, regarding the questioning of authenticity, perhaps with a significant meaning in this, that the registration of the speakers of the "sayings" has not been done in any chronological order or purpose, giving the impression that they are "stones and bricks randomly thrown", something completely unknown to the researchers of the works of Hieron of Alexandria, who is characterized by square logic in the formulation and presentation of his thoughts and reasoning.