Another quote about Spinoza:

The most opposite parties arrayed themselves against Spinoza. The aspect of this army of adversaries is highly amusing. Near a swarm of black and white Capuchins bearing cross and censer, marches the phalanx of the Encyclopedist, who also take aim at this "daring thinker"; by the side of the Rabbi of the synagogue of Amsterdam, who sounds the attack with the sacred buck's-horn, advances Arouet de Voltaire, playing obligato on the shrill pipe of irony for the benefit of deism.
-Heinrich Heine