Claude Helvetius
Claude Helvetius
Claude Adrien Helvétius– 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur...
books certain declare either fools insult limit nation press prohibit reading slaves
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
anvil harsh repulsed
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil