Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Happy he who is able to reclaim himself, who finds the way back to simplicity.”
- Source
- The Simple Life
- Date
- 1901
- English wording
- Mary Louise Hendee — Translator · from French
Meaning of “Happy he who is able to reclaim himself,…”
Returning to simplicity is presented as recovery of one’s own direction after distraction, excess or social complication has pulled attention outward.
Where does it come from?
The Simple Life, Chapter II, Mary Louise Hendee translation, Project Gutenberg #23092; Wagner closes the section by describing simplicity as something a person can recover.
