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Simplicity

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. – Christian Nevell Bovee

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive. – Jean De La Bruyere

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text. – Patrick J. Buchanan

To simplify complications is the first essential of success. – George Earle Buckle

The most complex things are the simplest. – Agni Celeste

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. – Sir Winston Churchill

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, its clear proof that it should be rejected. – Luc De Clapiers

Complexity creates a maze between you and success. Simplicity ensures a clear line of sight. – Lee J. Colan

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. – James Fenimore Cooper

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. – Eugene Delacroix

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. – Rene Descartes

What is conceived well is expressed clearly. – Philippe Nericault Destouches