When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement it is a sign that it should be rejected.

Vauvenargues
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  1. It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. - David Levithan

  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 Vauvenargues
  1. To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

  2. The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

  3. There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

  4. He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

  5. If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

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