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Claude Adrien Helvetius has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be…
• A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus…
• Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
• Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
• Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
• Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain…
• There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and…
• 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
• Genius is nothing but continued attention.
• Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of…
• By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

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