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Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius

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Men who are self-sufficient are useless to true friendship.

Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius

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Pleasure and pain are the only two springs that move and will move the world.

Fortune is like a garment: too loose it burdens us, and too tight it oppresses us.

Genius is revealed in adverse fortune; in prosperity, it is concealed.

The lofty gifts of the gods cannot be easily destroyed by mortal men, nor yield to their forces.

No matter how brave a man may be, he cannot fight beyond what his strength allows.

Men tire before sleeping, loving, singing, and dancing than they do from making war.