《新唐书·列传·卷二十二》
陛下时常议论，要远比于尧、舜，今日所为，却要居于汉文帝、晋武帝之下吗？
陛下居常论议，远希尧、舜，今所为，更欲处汉文、晋武下乎？
Your Majesty often argues that you are far superior to Yao and Shun. What you have done today, however, is inferior to what Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty have done?