You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just … - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"You are beautiful, but you are empty", he went on. "One could not die for you."

You're lovely but you're empty,' he went on. 'One couldn't die for you

If he shrugs his shoulders, it is because he is no fool. He knows that once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

but the flower continued her beauty preparations in the shelter of her green chamber, selecting her colors with greatest care and dressing quite deliberately,adjusting her petals one by one.She had no desire to emerge all rumpled, like the poppies. She wished to appear only with full radiance of her beauty. Oh yes, she was quite vain!

الكبار يحبون الأرقام، فإذا حدثتهم عن صديق عرفته حديثًا أغفلوا مزاياه الجوهرية ولم يسألوك عن رقة صوته ولا عمّا يؤثر من الألعاب ولا عن رغبته في جمع الفراشات، بل يسألونك: في أي سنة هو، وكم عدد إخوته، وكم وزنه، وكم يربح أبوه؟ فإذا عرفوا كل هذا اعتقدوا أنهم عرفوه.