Author of quotes: Claude Adrien Helvetius

Chapter 11

All limited people strive constantly to disgrace people of a solid and broad mind.

It takes a lot more intelligence to communicate your ideas than it does to have them.

4 paragraph, first lines.

... Is it possible to be at the same time incapable of attention and gifted with great talents? Do they really think that if Locke and Newton had not been diligent, they would have come to their great discoveries?

The sea does not leave the prescribed boundaries. Only a person dares to do this.

Love for the truth is the most favorable condition for finding it.

... Without passions, there are no great artists, no great generals, no great ministers, no great poets, no great philosophers.

It takes a moment to be surprised, and it takes years of patience and hard work to do an amazing thing.

When a state is governed by more than the law, less respect for the law begins. Compliance with the law is fairness. However, if the strongest authority is not based on the law, justice will immediately begin to be neglected. From here comes an infinite number of crimes.

Often sacrifice the greatest joys of life to be proud of what they sacrificed.

Preferably in the king - justice or kindness?

Constantly arguing about what should be called mind: each gives its own definition; this word connects the meaning of the phrase, and say, without understanding each other.

Happiness is to love doing what they should do.