道高益安，势高益危
Traditional form:
道高益安，勢高益危
Pinyin (reading):
dàogāoyì'ān,shìgāoyìwēi
Definitions:
- More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記／史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770).
Characters:
- 道 - method, way; path, road
- 高 - tall, lofty; high, elevated
- 益 - to profit, to benefit; advantage
- 安 - peaceful, tranquil, quiet
- 势 - power, force; tendency, attitude
- 高 - tall, lofty; high, elevated
- 益 - to profit, to benefit; advantage
- 危 - dangerous, precarious; high
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