Maria

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“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