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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Quote of Antoine de Saint-Exupery - When we work for material ends...


Biography - Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Born: 1900 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

When we work for material ends alone, we build ourselves our own prison.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
En travaillant pour les seuls biens matériels nous bâtissons nous-mêmes notre prison.

German
Indem wir allein für materielle Güter arbeiten, bauen wir uns selbst ein Gefängnis.




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I am rich in the goods that I can do without.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

All that is mine I carry with me.

Who lives content with little possesses everything.




Quotes for: work


Quotes

Quotes about work:


My work is a game, a very serious game.





The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.





It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.





Sowing is not so hard as reaping.





Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.





The fruits of labor are the sweetest of all pleasures.











Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery also said...


All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).





As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.





A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.





Language is a source of misunderstanding.












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