Live simply, that others may simply live.

The line distills an ethic of voluntary simplicity tied to social justice: one person’s restraint can widen the material and ecological space available to others. Read in a Gandhian key, “simply” is not mere austerity for its own sake but disciplined self-limitation—reducing wants, refusing excess, and aligning daily habits with concern for the poor. The second clause (“that others may simply live”) frames consumption as morally relational: private comfort can entail public deprivation. The aphorism also anticipates modern arguments about sustainability, inequality, and the idea that dignified life for all requires curbing luxury and waste by those with more.

1) "Live simply so that others may simply live."
2) "Live simply, so others may live."
3) "Live simply, that others might simply live."