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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 slaves.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
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 slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
All men have an equal disposition for understanding.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Most events spring from causes equally small: we are unacquainted with them because most historians have been themselves ignorant of them, or have not had eyes capable of perceiving them. It is true, that, in this respect, the mind may repair their omissions; for the knowledge of certain principles easily compensates the lack of knowledge of certain facts.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Education made us what we are.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
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.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
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.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
...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 honours. The actions personally advantageous for these virtuous men are so truly just, that they tend to promote the general welfare, or, at least, not to lessen it. But the number of these men is so small, that I only mention them in honour of humanity.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
...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 honours.
Claude Adrien Helvétius