Claude A. Helvetius

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

— Claude A. Helvetius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

— Claude A. Helvetius

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

— Claude A. Helvetius

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

— Claude A. Helvetius

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

— Claude A. Helvetius