"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself."

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"Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."

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"When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care."

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"Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince."So that I may forget," replied the tippler."Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him."Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head."Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him."Ashamed of drinking!"

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

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"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

"We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself."

"Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."

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