984 Quotes About Simplicity

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.

I love a life whose plot is simple.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.