Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

La Rochefoucauld
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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 La Rochefoucauld
  1. We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

  2. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

  3. We always love those who admire us and we do not always love those whom we admire.

  4. Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.

  5. We give advice but we do not inspire conduct.

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