道高益安，势高益危

MEANING

1. 壹名noun

   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).

   • dàogāoyìān,shìgāoyìwēi.

     道高益安，势高益危。🔊

     The higher one's moral character, the greater one's safety; the higher one's power, the greater one's danger.