18 Quotes by Juana Inés de la Cruz

privation is the cause of appetite

and it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?

Inclinéme a los estudiosDesde mis primeros añosCon tan ardientes desvelos,Con tan ansiosos cuidados,Que reduje a tiempo breveFatigas de mucho espacio.(...)

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

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

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

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

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

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