Маленький принц

- Я начинаю понимать, - сказал Маленький принц. - Есть одна роза... наверно, она меня приручила...

"The men where you live," said the little prince, "raise five thousand roses in the same garden — and they do not find in it what they are looking for."

"They do not find it," I replied.

"And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water."

"Yes, that is true," I said.

And the little prince added:

"But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart..."

One must demand of each and every one what he or she is capable of. Authority is first and foremost based on reason. If you order your people to throw themselves into the sea, you will have a revolution on your hands. I have the right to demand obedience because my orders are reasonable ones.

Если дашь волю баобабам, беды не миновать.

Так давно читала эту книгу, что уже и не могу сказать в точности, о чём она.
Был ли там какой-то глубокий смысл или нет, было ли там что-то, кроме знаменитого афоризма "Мы в ответе за тех, кого приручили"? Было ли? Я не знаю. Не помню. Должно быть, было, только вот мой ещё совсем детский в то время ум (а книгу я читала почти 6 лет назад) ничего не понял. Обязательно перечитаю.

нужно стерпеть двух-трех гусениц, если хочешь познакомиться с бабочками.

-Ох уж эти люди, - сказал Лис. - У них есть ружья, и они охотятся. Это весьма неудобно. А ещё они разводят кур. Вот чем они хороши.

Цветы так изменчивы!

По утрам, как только приведешь себя в порядок и на своей планете, да постарайся на совесть.

Взрослые любят цифры

Взрослым вечно надо растолковывать, что к чему.

Мы в ответе за тех кого приручили. Ты в ответе за свою розу.

whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.

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. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity
⸺ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince

But the flower was not satisfied to complete the preparations for her beauty in the shelter of her green chamber. She chose her colors with the greatest care. She dressed herself slowly. She adjusted her petals one by one. She did not wish to go out into the world all rumpled, like the field poppies.

You know — one loves the sunset,... when one is so sad.

If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, 'Somewhere, my flower is there...' But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened... And you think that is not important

There is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day. But when it is a matter of baobabs, that always means a catastrophe. I knew a planet that was inhabited by a lazy man. He neglected three little bushes..."
⸺ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince

"Before they grow so big, the baobabs start out by being little."