Real goodness is always simple

Simplicity is so attractive and so profitable that it is strange that so few people lead truly simple lives.

[INDENT]GREGORY SKOVORODADo not seek happiness elsewhere. Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.[/INDENT]

[INDENT]RALPH WALDO EMERSONMost of our spending is done to forward our efforts to look like others.[/INDENT]

Every great thing is done in a quiet, humble, simple way; to plow the land, to build houses, to breed cattle, even to think—you cannot do such things when there are thunder and lightning around you. Great and true things are always simple and humble.

No one looks less simple than those people who artificially strive to seem so. Artificial simplicity is the most unpleasant of all artificial things.

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Nice read