道高益安，势高益危

【词语拼音】dào gāo yì ān，shì gāo yì wēi

【词语繁体】道高益安，勢高益危

【词语结构】式词语

【词语字数】八字词语

【词语解释】
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。

【英语翻译】

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).