Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Quotes

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

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

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

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

privation is the cause of appetite

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?