Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it
There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart. - Claude Adrien Helvetius
There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
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 pro… - Claude Adrien Helvetius
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 pro…
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded - Claude Adrien Helvetius
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it. - Claude Adrien Helvetius
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. - Claude Adrien Helvetius
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have. - Claude Adrien Helvetius
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
Education made us what we are. - Claude Adrien Helvetius
Education made us what we are.
By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind. - Claude Adrien Helvetius
By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living. - Claude Adrien Helvetius
Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.
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