Quotations by Pierre Abelard

O quanta qualia sunt illa sabata,
Quae semper celebrat superna curia!

-- Hymnus Paraclitensis

O how great and glorious are those sabbaths which the heavenly court for ever celebrates!

Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.

-- Historia Calamitatum

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