We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.


Saint Francis de Sales

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And a little later you adde...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential a...
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
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which he...
VALENTINE DE SAINT-POINT
He who would travel happily must travel light
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it i...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into wh...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, si...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, si...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chant...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this i...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditati...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY