Famous quotes containing the words high and/or risk:
“Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but they are without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (16891755)
“A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.”
—Pierre Corneille (16061684)
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