It is the lightest, the most transparent and the rarest of virtues.
It is an intellectual virtue, but it is, first of all, moral, even spiritual virtue.
It is the reason, when it does not allow itself to be deceived: the reason that is lucid, incarnate, minimal, but which is the condition of all.
Simplicity is nakedness, it is detachment, it is freedom, lightness, transparency, spontaneity, disinterest, detachment, disdain to prove or to go ahead.
It is the truth of the virtues when they are freed from the concern to appear, to be, without artifice, without pretence, which is why it is so difficult.
Modesty without simplicity is false modesty. Sincerity without simplicity is exhibitionism or calculation.
It is not naivety, it is not unconsciousness, or stupidity, because the simple spirit is not a simple-minded one.
The opposite of simple is not complex, but false.