Juana Inés De La Cruz Quotes

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

Rare is he who will concede genius.

... privation is the source of appetite.

The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin?

If dual torment is to be my one condition, both of loving and being loved I would quit.

For those who are with greatness bornShould live not for themselves alone.

The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?

For now, this afternoon, you saw and touchedmy heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands.

privation is the cause of appetite