Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow — that is where joy resides. For me, wealth and renown without honor are nothing but drifting clouds.

Confucius
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  2. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. - Isaac Newton

  3. People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth. - Thomas Sowell

  4. I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he... - Henry David Thoreau

  5. Sincerity is simplicity. - Lailah Gifty Akita

More Quotes By Confucius
  1. It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.

  2. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  3. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

  4. Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

  5. If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

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