Pleasure and pain are the only masters of mankind; all our a... - Claude Adrien Helvetius

"Pleasure and pain are the only masters of mankind; all our actions flow from these two principles."

Claude Adrien Helvetius Philosophy

Philosopher Writer French 1715–1771

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