Much property is a trap for the stupid.
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 190
Published by Barnes & Noble Books
Published in New York
Published in 2003
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Contribution #1610
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 159
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Published in 2003
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Contribution #1601
The firm, the enduring, the simple and the modest are near to virtue.
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A bird may rest on a branch in the forest. A thirsty rat may sip from a stream. I have no more need than these insignificant creatures.
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c2300 BCE, declining an offer from the Emperor.
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Contribution #1569
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 thumbnail.
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The Sun
Page 48
Sunbeams
Volume: 391
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Contribution #1562
Love people. Use things. Not vice-versa.
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
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