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Simplicity defined:
1. absence of luxury, pretentiousness, ornament, etc.; plainness 2. freedom from deceit or guile; sincerity; artlessness; naturalness
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Banish wisdom, discard knowledge, And the people shall profit a hundredfold; Banish “humanity,” discard “justice,” And the people shall recover love of their kin; Banish cunning, discard “utility,” And the thieves and brigands shall disappear. As these three touch the externals and are inadequate, The people have need of what they can depend upon:
Reveal thy simple self, Embrace thy original nature, Check thy selfishness, Curtail thy desires.
(The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, transl. Lin Yutang, verse 19: Realize the Simple Self)
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