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.
Claude Adrien HelvetiusHarsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien HelvetiusPleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
Claude Adrien Helvetius