Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Cyrano de Bergerac (French Writer, Duelist.)

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–55) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. He is known for the many duels he fought (many due to his proverbially large nose,) as immortalized in Edmond Rostand’s romanticized drama Cyrano de Bergerac (1897.)

Born in Paris, Cyrano was a bold and innovative author, and his political satire and science-fantasy inspired several later writers. His works are crude but full of invention, vigor, and wit. They include the tragedy La Mort d’Agrippine (published 1654, ‘The Death of Agrippine,’) which was suspected of blasphemy, the comedy Le pédant joué (1654, ‘The Pedānt Out witted,’) and the satirical science fantasies L’autre monde, ou les états et empires de la lune et du soleil (1656, 1662; Voyages to the Moon and the Sun, 1754.)

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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.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Topics: Birth

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.
Cyrano de Bergerac

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 that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Topics: Philosophy, Philosophers

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Topics: Appearance

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