Cyrano de Bergerac Quotes

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• I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
• A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
• A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had…
• Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?
• We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a…
• 'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with…
• For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it…
• I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently…
• This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to…
• In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example…
• My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my…
• A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man.…
• Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and…
• Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you…
• Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out of my cloak…
• Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!
• She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is…

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