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From: MDBG CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary 漢英字典

 道高益安，勢高益危 [ㄉㄠˋ ㄍㄠ ㄧˋ ㄢ , ㄕˋ ㄍㄠ ㄧˋ ㄨㄟ; dao4 gao1 yi4 an1 , shi4 gao1 yi4 wei1]
 More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770).
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