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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!


Saint Francis de Sales

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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of m...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since the...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurr...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not wha...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exal...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeel...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ou...
MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.
SEIGNEUR DE SAINT-EVREMOND A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartl...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and wo...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in som...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustl...
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