An exchange is a transaction in which the two contracting parties both gain. Whenever I make an exchange freely, and without constraint, it is because I desire the thing I receive more than that I give; and, on the contrary, he with whom I bargain desires what I offer more than that which he renders me. When I give my labour for wages it is because I esteem the wages more than what I should have been able to produce by labouring for myself; and he who pays me prizes more the services I render him than what he gives me in return.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to t... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance o... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward togeth... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mi... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupe... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited mis... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby wo... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, f... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this centu... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You know you've achieved perfection in design,
Not when you have nothing more to add,
But when you ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collec... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to tak... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was l... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has ta... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden ha... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us m... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY A goal without a plan is just a wish. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Love is an egoism of two ANTOINE DE LA SALLE Inside the narrow skull of the miner pinned beneath the fallen timber, there lives a world. Parents,... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY When human beings are involved, statistics become a frightful game that I cannot play. People have s... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewive... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY A true book is like a net, and words are the mesh. The nature of the mesh matters relatively little.... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The pr... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little thi... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY In my mind's eye I can still see the first night flight I made in Argentina. It was pitch-dark. Yet ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down,... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY