"Luckless is the country in which the symbols……" — Cyrano de Bergerac
"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 call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away."
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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18 Quotes by Cyrano de Bergerac
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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
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A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
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A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
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Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?
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We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the…
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
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For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its…
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too,…
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In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled…
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My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony?…
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