Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
10 quotes
“Which is more to blame, though both may do wrong: she who sins for payment, or he who pays for sin?”
“Divine rose that in gentle culture, you are, with your fragrant subtlety, purple magistracy in beauty, snowy lesson to loveliness”
“The whole world is opinions, of such varied judgments, that what one calls black, another proves is white”
“It is not wisdom to be wise in vain discourse; true wisdom lies in choosing what is sound”
“He who listens and learns, it is only right that he should attend and be silent”
“Reason has never been an offense”
“Even knowledge grows tiresome when it is one's profession”
“If Aristotle had cooked, he would have written much more”
“I don't study to know more, but to ignore less”
“Foolish men who accuse women without reason, not seeing that you are the occasion of the very thing you blame”