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Source: A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...
“No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.”
Source: De l'esprit; or, Essays on the mind. Transl. To Which are now prefixed, a life of the author and prefatory strictures by W. Mudford
“To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.”
Source: A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...
“Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.”
“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.”
Source: A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...
“Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.”
“Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.”
“Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.”