But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it.
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.
Les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur.
What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I...
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...They don't find it, I answered.And yet what they're looking for...
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...
On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.You're the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
J'y gagne, dit le renard, a cause de la couleur du ble.
J'aime bien les couchers de soleil. Allons voir un coucher de soleil...
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...
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have...
If you could fly to France in one minute, you could go straight into the sunset, right from noon. Unfortunately, France is too far away for that. But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you nee...
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.
There is no hope or joy except in human relations.
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.