Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires s…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 87, 1799.
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