《梁书·列传·卷五十四》
我国从先王以来，衹把修德作为治国的根本，不用威严而获得大治。
我先王以来，唯以修德为本，不严而治。
Since the former king of our country, we have only taken cultivating virtue as the foundation of governing the country, and we have not achieved great governance by power.