Juana Inﾃδｩs de la Cruz Quotes

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

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

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

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.

... privation is the source of appetite.

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?