Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity — I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

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Source: The Republic (380 BC) by Plato; Book III.

Variant translation: Good speech, then, good accord, and good grace, and good rhythm wait upon good disposition…

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which - Plato

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