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Simplicity Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
- Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
- There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
- The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
- He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
- Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
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- I always go for simplicity. — David Bailey
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- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. — Henry Adams
- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
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