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Grown-ups find it hard to understand anything on their own, and it is tiring for children to always have to explain things to them.
‘You know,’ you added sometime later, ‘when people are sad, they watch sunsets.’
‘I made a mistake! I should have judged her by her deeds and not by her words. She filled my world with light and her perfume. I should not have run away. I should have noticed that she cared underneath all her games. Flowers are incomprehensible! Or maybe I wasn’t old enough to know how to love her.’
‘Well, I should endure two or three caterpillars if I wish to meet the butterflies.
One must demand what can be given,’ the king went on. ‘Authority basically rests on reason.
‘Then you must judge yourself,’ said the king. ‘It is the hardest thing to do. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. But if you succeed, then you are indeed a wise man.’
‘Here is my secret, it’s a simple secret: it is only through your heart that you can see clearly. The eyes do not see that which is most important.’
‘It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important.’
You are forever responsible for those you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.’
‘Be it a house, the stars, the desert – what makes them beautiful stays invisible!’
‘People on this planet,’ said the little prince, ‘grow five thousand roses in the same garden and yet do not find what they are looking for.’ ‘They do not,’ I replied. ‘Still, what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water.’
Once tamed, you are in danger of being unhappy …
‘The things that matter,’ he repeated, ‘are invisible.’
