Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

More Quotes By Claude Adrien Helvetius

• No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
• Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
• To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare...
• Education made us what we are.
• The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
• Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
• Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
• Genius is nothing but continued attention.
• A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who...
• Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of...