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道高益安,勢高益危

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).

Characters and words in 道高益安,勢高益危

dào = d + ao4
road / path / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3] / principle / truth / morality / reason / skill / method / Dao (of Daoism) / to say / to speak / to talk / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
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gāo = g + ao1
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gāo = g + ao1
high / tall / above average / loud / your (honorific)
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= y + Ø4
= y + Ø4
benefit / profit / advantage / beneficial / to increase / to add / all the more
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ān = Ø + an1
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ān = Ø + an1
(bound form) calm; peaceful / to calm; to set at ease / safe; secure; in good health / content; satisfied (as in 安於|安于[an1 yu2]) / to place (sb) in a suitable position (job) / to install; to fix; to fit / to bring (a charge against sb) / to harbor (certain intentions) / ampere (abbr. for 安培[an1 pei2])
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shì = sh + Ø4
power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals
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wēi = w + ei1
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wēi = w + ei1
danger / to endanger / Taiwan pr. [wei2]
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Words with 道高益安,勢高益危

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