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Confucius – simple life

Mind Quote / Zou, Lu state, Ancient China / 551 BC – 479 BC / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Moth on fence, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark / Print /
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Life is really simple

but we insist on making it complicated.

– Confucius

 

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