Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg C…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 13, 1799.
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