Quotes by Claude Helvetius

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