Tao Te Ching
Heloise
1090 – 1164 CE
An orphan raised in a convent, Héloïse became a brilliant scholar, one of the earliest and most radical feminists, a powerful abbess over multiple convents, and half of one of the most famous and talked about relationships of her era. As femme fatale to Peter Abélard when he was on the rise toward becoming a pope, her influence caused him immense humiliation and pain as well as the inspiration for some of the most important books of the time, a regard for the sense over the words, and a declaration of philosophical independence for reason over belief. It’s become a tradition for the hoping-to-find-true love to leave letters at their crypt.
Eras
Chinese
5 Kingdom of Dali 大理国 (937 – 1253 CE)Northern Song (960 – 1127 CE)
Southern Song (1127 – 1279 CE)
Liao dynasty (907 – 1125 CE)
Jin dynasty (1115 – 1234 CE)
Western Xia 西夏 (1038 – 1227 CE)
Western Liao (1124 – 1218 CE)
Unlisted Sources
Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
Quotes by Heloise (6 quotes)
“She who weds a rich man rather than a poor and desires more things in her husband than he does himself, deserves payment rather than love.”
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“It is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue.”
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“I preferred love to wedlock, freedom to a bond.”
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“Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.”
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“If there is anything that may properly be called happiness here below, I am persuaded it is the union of two persons who love each other with perfect liberty.”
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“Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.”
from Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
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