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To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

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Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education V1

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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

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Claude Adrien Helvétius

Philosopher

Born: 1715-01-26

Died: 1771-12-26

Claude Adrien Helvétius (26 January or 26 February 1715 (sources differ) – 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher and littérateur.More