Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no… - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed. . .

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you — - the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.