A Treatise On Man His Intellectual Faculties And His Education volume 2
A Treatise On Man His Intellectual Faculties And His Education volume 2
1715 1771 Helvtius
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He will not brave dan- ger and torture, or attempt any perilous enterprize, if advantage attendin"; the success does not bear some proportion to the danger. This is a fact, that is proved by the experience of all ages. M4 CHAP. 168 TREATISE ON MAN. of Climes committed from a love of glory or patriotism. CHAP. VIL i>F ATROCIOUS ENTERPUlZES UNDERTAKEN FRUAS A LOVF- OF GLORY, OR OF OUR COUNTRY. W HEN, to rescue themsjelves and their country from the fetters of slavery, Dion, Pelopidas, Aratus, and... Timoleon, meditated the murder of a tyrant, what v/ere their hopes and their fears? They were in no dread of the shame and punishment of a Ravaiilac. If fortune abandoned them in their enterprize, the hero, constantly supported by a powerful pa, rty, could always flatter himself with dying sword in hand. If he were successful, he became the idol of his country. The recompence, therefore, bore at least some proportion to the danger. When Brutus followed Caesar to the senate, he doubtless said to himself, " The name of Brutus, that " name already consecrated by the expulsion of the " Tarquins, commands me to murder the dictator, and " makes it my duty.
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