Laozi
(-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! 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.”
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“here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.”
Book V, 5.105-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book V
“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Engaging in complexity is a key to simplicity. Fear of it will haunt your inner recesses.”
David Allen
(1945) American productivity consultant and author
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“The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.”
William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
(1745–1836) British politician
As quoted in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1845) by John Campbell, Vol. x. Chap. 212; this precedes the use by Benjamin Disraeli of "The sweet simplicity of the three per cents", in Endymion (1880).
“The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.”
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 96. Compare: "The elegant simplicity of the three per cents", Lord Stowell, in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (Campbell), Vol. x, Chap. 212.