And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.