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Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy.

— Claude Adrien Helvétius De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties (1758)

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No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

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All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

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The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

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

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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

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