《南齐书·列传·卷四十三》
况且也是因为陛下是以盛德统率群臣，所以我得以依照礼法有进有退。
且亦缘陛下以德御下，故臣可得以礼进退。
Besides, it is because Your Majesty governs the court based on great virtues that I dare, according to the law, to advance or to retreat.