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Men Quotes by 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 call…
- Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- 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…
- The man who believes he can do it is probably right.
- What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded
- Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
- There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.
- 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…
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