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Simplicity
And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
是的，写书很简单，因为你不是一个团队的成员，所以你自己做所有的决定，而不是服从委员会。
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
宏伟与美丽是如此的对立，以至于你常常在增加美与减少美的同时，也在减少美。多样性与后者最为相似，简单性与前者最为相似。
These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.
英语和法语中缺乏简单性的这些例子，表面上都相反，几乎可以无限地增加，并适用于所有的民族语言。
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
一切深刻的东西都是简单的，只要保持对整个真理的参照，就可以简单地再现出来。但重要的不是机智，而是真实。
The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike.
上善若水，水善利万物而不争。处眾人之所恶，故几於道。
I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.
我非常喜欢简单，尤其是歌曲，我尽量不把它们复杂化。我只是让它们变得简单，让人们自己吸收这些信息。这是我的理论。
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
描述美的线条是椭圆的。它具有简单性和不断的变化。它不能用指南针来描述，它在每一点上都改变方向。
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
然而，对法语中反身用法的逻辑分析表明，这种简单是一种幻觉，它非但没有帮助外国人，反而更有意地让外国人感到烦恼。
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
在我的实践中，摄影通过简单产生快乐。我看到一些特别的东西，并把它展示给相机。生成了一幅图。这一刻一直等到有人看到。那么它就是他们的了。
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
我不能同意我这必死无疑的躯体将被埋葬在一个为皇帝或国王准备的宝库中。我的共和情怀和原则禁止我这样做。
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
简单、清晰、单一:这些都是赋予我们生活力量、生动和快乐的特质，因为它们也是伟大艺术的标志。它们似乎是上帝创造万物的目的。
But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
但我处理这种冥想，通过理解我被安置在这个星球上是为了服务人类。我必须提醒自己要活得简单，不要过度放纵，这是一个物质世界里不断的战斗。
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French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
法语和德语也同样说明了明显的语法简单性所具有的误导性。
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
如果你不能简单地解释它，你就不能很好地理解它。
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
自然作品中崇高的朴素往往源于观察者的崇高的短视。
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
简单并不是艺术的目标，但一个人不顾自己，通过进入事物的真实意义而达到简单。
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
除了把事情做完的高尚艺术，还有把事情做完的高尚艺术。生活的智慧在于消除不必要的东西。
I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.
我只是挥了三下秋千，然后坐在凳子上。我可不想把秋千弄乱。