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" Corporal sensibility is therefore the sole mover of man, [and] he is consequently susceptible . . . but of two sorts of pleasures and pains, the one are present bodily pains and pleasures, the other are the pains and pleasures of foresight or memory. "
A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education - Page 126
by Helvétius - 1810 - 510 pages
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The Norton History of the Human Sciences

Roger Smith - Social sciences - 1997 - 1070 pages
...[and] he is consequently susceptible . . . but of two sorts of pleasures and pains, the one are present bodily pains and pleasures, the other are the pains and pleasures of foresight or memory.' Therefore, 'pleasure and pain are, and always will be, the only principles of action in man'.27 This...
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