道高益安,势高益危 [dào gāo yì ān , shì gāo yì wēi ]

道高益安,势高益危

道高益安,势高益危

  • 成语名称:道高益安,势高益危(daogaoyian,shigaoyiwei)
  • 成汉字:
  • 成语解释: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。
  • 语法结构:复句式成语
  • 成语用法:作宾语、分句;用于劝诫人
  • 成语出处:史记·日者列传》:“道高易安,势高益危。居赫赫之势,失身且有日矣。”
  • 成语年代:古代成语
  • 感情色彩:中性成语
  • 百度百科:道高益安,势高益危,俗语,意为权势越大,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).
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