The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Grown-ups don’t understand anything by themselves and it is tiring for children to be explaining everything all the time.

He said that on his planet, just like everywhere, there are good and bad plants. If a bad plant started growing, it should be destroyed at the beginning.

“If someone loves a flower, a single flower that grows in one of millions of planets, he gets happy when he looks at the sky and sees all those millions of stars and thinks ‘somewhere, my flower is there…’, but if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all the stars will get dark. And you think that is not serious.”

“You have to ask people what they can do. If you ask people to jump into the sea to die, they will be revolted because my orders are not reasonable.”

But if you tame me, then we will need each other. To me, you will be unique in this world. To you, I will be unique in all the world.”

He was just like a thousand foxes, but now he is my friend and he is unique in this world.”

It is only with the heart that we can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important.”

You become responsible, forever, for what you tamed. You are responsible for your rose…”

“What I see here is only a shell. The most important is invisible… what moves me is his loyalty to a flower…”