Quotes by "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry"

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.

„Nu cunoști decat lucrurile pe care le imblanzesti, spuse vulpea. Oamenii nu mai au timp sa cunoasca nimic. Cumpara lucruri de-a gata de la negustori. Dar, cum nu exista negustori de prieteni, oamenii nu mai au prieteni. Daca vrei un prieten, imblanzeste-ma!

Vivi muito tempo no mundo das pessoas grandes. Vi-as de bem perto.Não fiquei com muito melhor opinião delas.

If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eye.

You’ll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, ‘What they could do, I can do.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

The only things you learn are the things you tame