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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Claude Adrien HelvĂ©tius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.43
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.