“Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy.”

—  Claude Adrien Helvétius

De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties (1758)
Context: 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.

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