Claude Adrien Helvétius– 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur... (wikipedia)
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil
To limit the press is to insult a nation ; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves
We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ