Cyrus warns his army, “We must beware of what has ruined the fortune of many a conqueror, the lust for plunder. The man who plunders is no longer a man,” he is a slave to the plunder he must drag behind him. “We must bear in mind: nothing can bring such gain as victory; at one clutch the victor seizes all, men and women, and wealth, and territory.” He warned his army they must finish during daylight, to keep his troops in order.