Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than having the ability to derive pleasure even from that-- and the feeling of having arrived at something which one cannot be deprived of by any unjust stroke of fortune. Seneca
It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
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David Levithan
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Isaac Newton
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.
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Thomas Sowell
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...
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Henry David Thoreau
Sincerity is simplicity.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Seneca
Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
