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Héloïse
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“... we passed our brightest days in tranquillity and happiness. If that were a crime, 'tis a crime I am yet fond of ...”
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“... it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.”
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“The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest ...”
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“... the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.”
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“... nothing is less in our power than the heart, which we are forced rather to obey than able to command.”
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“When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.”
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“Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.”
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“Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous ...”
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“If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.”
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“Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.”
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“... I was more pleased with possessing your heart than with any other happiness, and the man was the thing I least valued in you.”
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“I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.”
Héloïse, French religious, writer, scholar, abbess
(1101 - 1164)
More formally referred to as Héloïse d’Argenteuil.