《隋书·列传·卷十》
我时常害怕他加害于我，如防范大敌，今天决意废除他，来安定天下。
我恆畏其加害，如防大敌，今欲废之，以安天下。 
I have often been afraid that he would harm me, as if I were guarding against a great enemy, and today I have decided to depose him in order to stabilize the world.