Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all...
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become prese...
What a queer planet! he thought. It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them . . . On m...
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Quand on a terminé sa toilette du matin, il faut faire soigneusement la toilette de la planète.
Vous êtes belles mais vous êtes vides, leur dit-il encore. On ne peut pas mourir pour vous. Bien sûr, ma rose à moi, un passant ordinaire croirait qu'elle vous ressemble. Mais à elle seule elle est pl...
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?A sheep eats whatever it finds.Even a flower with thorn?Even a flower with thorns.Then what's the good of thorns?
One only understands the things that one tames, said the fox. Men haveno more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at theshops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy f...
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.