"My life's work has been to prompt others……" — Cyrano de Bergerac
"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 life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose."
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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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A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed…
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