"Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like……" — Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil."
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22 Quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius
Claude Adrien Helvetius has 22 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…
- A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he…
- 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.
- Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and…
- There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for…
- 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…
- 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…
- By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
- Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.