C’est comme pour la fleur. Si tu aimes une fleur qui se trouve dans une étoile, c’est doux, la nuit, de regarder le ciel. Toutes les étoiles sont fleuries.
Adieu, dit-il…- Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple : on ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.- L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux, répéta...
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.
Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.
The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.You are not at all like my rose, he said. As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I fi...
People where you live, the little prince said, grow five thousand roses in one garden... Yet they don't find what they're looking for... And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single ros...
One must require from each one the duty with each one can perform, said the king. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, t...
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that...
J'y gagne, dit le renard, a cause de la couleur du ble.
It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regular...
I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add u...
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
الكبار يحبون الأرقام، فإذا حدثتهم عن صديق عرفته حديثًا أغفلوا مزاياه الجوهرية ولم يسألوك عن رقة صوته ولا عمّا يؤثر من الألعاب ولا عن رغبته في جمع الفراشات، بل يسألونك: في أي سنة هو، وكم عدد إخوته، وكم...
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
You know--one loves the sunset, when one is so sad.
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'And a little later you added:'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.''Were you that sad, then, on the day of the f...