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.

  • -- William Shenstone 威廉·申斯通

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。

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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

简单是这个世界上最难得到的东西;它是经验的最后极限,是天才的最后努力。

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

生活的智慧在于消除不必要的东西。

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

描述幸福就是减少幸福。