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> [By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/by-annihilating-desires-you-annihilate-the-mind/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

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## More by Claude Adrien Helvetius

> [Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/every-man-without-passions-has-within-him-no-principle-of-action-nor/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/he-who-has-no-passion-has-no-principal-or-motive-to-act/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [Genius is nothing but continued attention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/genius-is-nothing-but-continued-attention/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/a-man-who-believes-that-he-eats-his-god-we-do-not-call-mad-yet-a-man/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/the-men-of-sense-the-idols-of-the-shallow-are-very-inferior-to-the/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/to-limit-the-press-is-to-insult-a-nation-to-prohibit-reading-of/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/no-nation-has-reason-to-regard-itself-superior-to-others-by-virtue-of/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [The man who believes he can do it is probably right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/the-man-who-believes-he-can-do-it-is-probably-right/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/to-be-loved-we-should-merit-but-little-esteem-all-superiority/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/the-degree-of-genius-necessary-to-please-us-is-pretty-nearly-the-same/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/by-annihilating-the-desires-you-annihilate-the-mind-every-man-without/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/pleasure-and-pain-are-the-only-springs-of-action-in-man-and-always/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/harsh-counsels-have-no-effect-they-are-like-hammers-which-are-always/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/truth-is-a-torch-which-gleams-in-the-fog-but-does-not-dispel-it/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

> [Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-adrien-helvetius/discipline-is-simply-the-art-of-making-the-soldiers-fear-their/)

[Claude Adrien Helvetius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-adrien-helvetius/)

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