Pinyin Dictionary results for "dao gao yi an , shi gao yi wei"

道高益安,势高益危
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).
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