Famous Quotes / Claude A. Helvetius
6 Quotations by Claude A. Helvetius
- 1. By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no p ...
- 2. Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.
- 3. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- 4. Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
- 5. He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
- 6. Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.