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道高益安，势高益危
dào gāo yì ān , shì gāo yì wēi
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).