Claude Adrien Helvetius famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
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No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
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All men have an equal disposition for understanding.
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Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.
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The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
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Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
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Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.
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Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
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There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.
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Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This fear has often the effect of courage: but it cannot prevail against the fierce and obstinate valor of people animated by fanaticism, or warm love of their country.
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Genius is nothing but continued attention.
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.
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A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.
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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
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Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it
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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
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The man who believes he can do it is probably right.
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What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded
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Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius
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