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Cyrano de Bergerac [1619-1655] French

Rank: 101
Playwright, Novelist

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian and duelist.
A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the seventeenth century.

Alone, Great, Love, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.	Alone, Great	101
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.	Truth	102
'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 those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.'		103
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 darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air.		104
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 work under it out of the rain.		105
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 great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.		106
A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.		107
A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.	Love	108
Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?		109
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 been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.		110
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 self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.		111

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