If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“But I made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
…if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“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… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“You are beautiful but you are empty. One could not die for you” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“Stretched out before the fire I looked at the glowing fruit and said to myself that men did not know what an orange was.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
