道高益安，势高益危

道高益安，势高益危

道高益安，势高益危 [ dào gāo yì ān，shì gāo yì wēi ]

基本释义

益：更加；势：权势。道德越高尚，为人处事好，就越安全；权势越大，更容易滥用权力，刚愎自用，就越危险。

出 处

《史记·日者列传》:“道高易安，势高益危。居赫赫之势，失身且有日矣。”

英文翻译

More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770).