If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man
of true wisdom
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The prince has since visited six other planets, each of which was
inhabited by one adult. They include:
A king with no subjects, who only issues orders that will be followed,
such as commanding the sun to set at sunset.
A conceited man who only wants to be the most admired person on his
otherwise uninhabited planet.
A drunkard who drinks to forget the shame of drinking.
A businessman who is blind to the beauty of the stars and instead
endlessly counts and catalogs them in order to "own" them all.
A lamplighter on a planet so small, a full day lasts a minute. He
wastes his life following orders to extinguish and relight the
lamppost every 30 seconds to correspond with his planet's day and
night. Despite this, the little prince notes that he wishes he could
have stayed on his planet the most.
An elderly geographer who has never been anywhere, or seen any of the
things he records. He persuades the prince to visit Earth next.
...
...
The prince then met two people from Earth:
A railway switchman who described how passengers constantly rushed
from one place to another aboard trains, never satisfied with where
they were and not knowing what they were after; only the children
among them ever bothered to look out the windows.
A merchant who spoke about his product, a pill that eliminated the
need to drink for a week, saving people 53 minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
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