<head>Wisdom of Philopoemen</head>What is good very seldom coincides with what is advantageous, and few are those who can combine the two and adapt them to each other.
Indeed we all know that for the most part the nature of immediate profit is repugnant to goodness and vice versa.
But Philopoemen made this his purpose and attained his object. For it was a good act to restore to their country the Spartan exiles who were prisoners, and it was an advantageous one to humble the city of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Sparta&groupId=660&placeId=1208">Sparta</a> by destroying the satellites of the tyrants.
And being by nature a man of sound sense and a real leader, he saw that money is at the root of the re-establishment of all kingly power, and did his best to prevent the receipt of the sums advanced.
Walbank Commentary