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& if you wait for an opportunity to write pleasant & agreeable things to us,you will delay writing too long.Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous,& fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps but one wise & brave man it is not to be expected that she should single him out. Write to me then immediately & wait not for miracles;
— Apr 29, 2022 10:51PM
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I begin to perceive, Abelard, that I take too much pleasure in writing to you; I ought to burn this letter. It shows that I still feel a deep passion for you, though at the beginning I tried to persuade you to the contrary. I am sensible of waves both of grace and passion, and by turns yield to each.
— Apr 30, 2022 08:26AM
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“How void of reason are men, said Seneca, to make distant evils present by reflections, and to take pains before death to lose all the joys of life.”
— Apr 30, 2022 05:55AM
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I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love. I was come to the sad experiment of making vows to harden my heart. But what have I gained by this? If my passion has been put under a restraint my thoughts yet run free. I promise myself that I will forget you, and yet cannot think of it without loving you
— Apr 30, 2022 02:18AM
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Apr 29, 2022 10:52PM
".. they are too scarce, and we too much accustomed to misfortunes to expect a happy turn. I shall always have this, if you please, and this will always be agreeable to me, that when I receive any letter from you I shall know you still remember me. Seneca (with whose writings you made me acquainted), though he was a Stoic, seemed to be so very sensible to this kind of pleasure, that upon opening any letters from Lucilius he imagined he felt the same delight as when they conversed together."
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