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Quotes from A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education, Vol. I — Claude Adrien Helvétius

1715–1771 France

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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education, Vol. I (1773)

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: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education, Vol. I (1773)

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