在线词典

道高益安,势高益危

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。

拼音
dào gāo yì ān,shì gāo yì wēi
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。
英文释义
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).