Frustra fit per plura, quod potest fieri per pauciora.
It is pointless to do with more what can be done with fewer.
William of Ockham (c. 1287 – 1347) — he of “Occam’s Razor,” one of its expressions here presented — in Summa Totius Logicae, i. 12.
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