《贞观政要·卷五·论公平》
这致使告讦的人接踵而来，加大治理却不能平息，君主在上面按照私心办事，官吏则在下面心怀欺诈，过于追究细节，不顾大体，对一个人处罚，却引起了众人的营私舞弊，这是与刑罚的公正背道而驰的，背弃了大禹对罪人哭泣的初衷，这样却希望人们和睦相处，使诉讼平息，是办不到的。所以《体论》上说： 奸淫盗窃，是百姓所痛恨的。
告讦无已，穷理不息，君私于上，吏奸于下，求细过而忘大体，行一罚而起众奸，此乃背公平之道，乖泣辜之意，欲其人和讼息，不可得也。
This has led to the emergence of informants, and the increase in governance has not been able to quell it. The monarch acts according to his own selfishness above, while the officials are deceitful below, and they pay too much attention to details and ignore the overall situation. They punish one person, but it arouses everyone's corruption and bribery, which runs counter to the fairness of the punishment and abandons Dayu's original intention of crying for the sinner. In this way, it is impossible to hope that people will live in harmony and the lawsuits will subside. Therefore, the "Ti Lun" says: Adultery, theft, and theft are what the people hate.