Top 19 Juana Ines De La Cruz Quotes

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

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#2. 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?

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#3. Critics: In your sight
no woman can win:
keep you out, and she's too tight;
she's too loose if you get in.

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. Rare is he who will concede genius.

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

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#8. Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do? ... I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die.

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

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

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#11. One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

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

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#13. 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.

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

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#15. The matter to me was simple:
love for you was so strong,
I could see you in my soul
and talk to you all day long.

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

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#17. Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

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#18. 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?

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#19. Privation is the source of appetite.

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