All men have an equal disposition for understanding. Claude Adrien Helvetius More Quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius More Quotes From Claude Adrien Helvetius 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 Helvetius stronglovemen He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act. Claude Adrien Helvetius principalmotivepassion Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. Claude Adrien Helvetius disciplinemilitaryart 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 Claude Adrien Helvetius sacrificechurchpeople Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living. Claude Adrien Helvetius envyhonororder Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. Claude Adrien Helvetius hatevicesmen 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 Helvetius youmanmindaction
