Famous quotes containing the words absolute, risk and/or aversion:
“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)