Words are the source of misunderstandings.

My life is very monotonous,” the fox said. “I hunt chickens: men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored....

She knew this man’s smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure,...

One day,” you said to me, “I saw the sunset forty-four times!”And a little later you added:”You know– one loves the sunet, when one is so sad…””Were you so sad, then?” I asked, “on the...

Il me semble qu’ils confondent but et moyen ceux qui s’effraient par trop de nos progrès techniques. Quiconque lutte dans l’unique espoir de biens matériels, en effet, ne récolte rien qui vaille de vivre. Mais...

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

On peut enivrer les Allemands de l’ivresse d’être Allemands et compatriotes de Beethoven. On peut en saouler jusqu’au soutier. C’est, certes, plus facile que de tirer du soutier un Beethoven.

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

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

When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyondmyself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.

Seule compte la démarche. Car c’est elle qui dure et non le but qui n’est qu’une illusion du voyageur quand il marche de crête en crête comme si le but atteint avait un sens

La vérité pour l’homme, c’est qui fait de lui un homme.

But in the machine of today we forget that motors are whirring: the motor, finally, has come to fulfill its function, which is to whirr as a heart beats – and we give no thought...

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

Si ce que tu as trouvé est fait de matière pure, cela ne pourrira jamais. Et tu pourras y revenir un jour. Si ce n’est qu’un instant de lumière, comme l’explosion d’une étoile, alors tu...

Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.

Etre homme, c’est précisément être responsable. C’est connaître la honte en face d’une misère qui ne semblait pas dépendre de soi. C’est être fier d’une victoire que les camarades ont remportée. C’est sentir, en posant...

He who is different from me does not impoverish me – he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves – in Man… For no man seeks to hear his own echo,...

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will...

Ce n’était qu’un renard semblable à cent mille autres. Mais j’en ai fait mon ami, et il est maintenant unique au monde.

‘Men have forgotten this truth,’ said the fox. ‘But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.’

I am beginning to understand,” said the little prince. “There is a flower… I think that she has tamed me…

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

The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for...

C’est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.

Nous avons accepté la règle du jeu, le jeu nous forme à son image. Le Sahara, c’est en nous qu’il se montre. L’aborder ce n’est point visiter l’oasis, c’est faire notre religion d’une fontaine.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

What makes the desert beautiful,’ said the little prince, ‘is that somewhere it hides a well…

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 friendship, and somen have no friends any more. If you...

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...

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..

Tu reviendras me dire adieu, et je te ferai cadeau d’un secret.

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thorn?even a flower with thorns.then what’s the good of thorns?

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry…

if you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the 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

Des hommes qui ont vécu longtemps d’un grand amour, puis en furent privés, se lassent parfois de leur noblesse solitaire. Ils se rapprochent humblement de la vie, et, d’un amour médiocre, font leur bonheur. Ils...

And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You’ll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I’m not afraid. I have my thorns…to protect me.

Aimer, ce n’est pas se regarder l’un l’autre, c’est regarder ensemble dans la même direction. * To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

Please-tame me!’ he said.’I want to, very much,’ the little prince replied. ‘But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.”One only understands the things that...

Mais, dans la mort d’un homme, un monde inconnu meurt, et je me demandais quelles étaient les images qui sombraient en lui.

La terre nous en apprend plus sur nous que tous les livres. Parce qu’elle nous résiste. L’homme se découvre quand il se mesure avec l’obstacle.(Terre des hommes)

Il s’étonna de réfléchir sur des problèmes qu’il ne s’était jamais posés. Et pourtant revenait contre lui, avec un murmure mélancolique, la masse des douceurs qu’il avait toujours écartées: un océan perdu. “Tout cela est...

Mais voici qu’aujourd’hui nous avons éprouvé la soif. Et ce puits que nous connaissons, nous découvrons, aujourd’hui seulement, qu’il rayonne sure l’étendue. Une femme invisible peut enchanter ainsi toute une maison. Un puits porte loin,...

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

Tu seras toujours mon ami. Tu auras envie de rire avec moi.