Diane de Poitiers Quotes
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To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
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The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
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Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.
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... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
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Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
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Tact is good taste in action.
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It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
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We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.
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Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.
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It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
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Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
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It is easier to win love than to keep it.
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