Heloise Quotes


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.


Citations

Heloise. Letters of Abelard and Heloise. Translated by John Hughes, J. Watts, 1713, p. 69.

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  • Born: May 16, 1163
  • Died: April 21, 1163
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Héloïse, variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess.