Quotes from Juana Inés de la Cruz

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

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

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

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

Foolish men who accusea woman mindlessly—you cannot even seeyou cause what you abuse.

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.