"Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates."
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"There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world."
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"An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy."
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"Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity."
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"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated."
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"The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it."
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"Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be."
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"Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity."
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"Living simply makes loving simple."
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"The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity"
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"To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world."
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"...it is simplicity that is difficult to make."
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"In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness."
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"Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach."
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"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
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"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
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"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough."
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"When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it."
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"The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity."
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"The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort."
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