Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opin…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 11, 1799.
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