Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?

For now, this afternoon, you saw and touchedmy heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands.

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 cause of appetite

If dual torment is to be my one condition,both of loving and being loved I would quit.

For those who are with greatness bornShould live not for themselves alone.