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Claude Adrien Helvetius [1715-1771] French

Claude Adrien Helvétius was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur.

Quote	Tags	Rank
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.	Truth	101
Genius is nothing but continued attention.		102
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.		103
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.		104
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.		105
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.		106
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.		107
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.		108

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