Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Quotes

“O world, why do you wish to persecute me? How do I offend you, when I intend only to fix beauty in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on beauty?

I do not set store by treasures or riches; & therefore it always brings me more joy only to fix riches in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on riches.

I do not set store by a lovely face that, vanquished, is civil plunder of the ages, & perfidious wealth has never pleased me,

for I deem it best, as one of my truths, to deplete the vanities of this life & never this life to deplete in vanities.”
― Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings

“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?”
― Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings

“privation is the cause of appetite”
― Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings