A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.
Claude Adrien HelvetiusHarsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien HelvetiusTo 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: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.
Claude Adrien Helvetius