Claude Adrien Helvetius Art Quotations

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This fear has often the effect of courage: but it cannot prevail against the fierce and obstinate valor of people animated by fanaticism, or warm love of their country.