Diane de Poitiers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Courage #Despair #Outcomes
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Degrees #Abyss #Wells
Tact is good taste in action.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Taste #Action #Tact
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Age #Old Age
Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Growing Up #Boys #Men
It is easier to win love than to keep it.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Winning #Easier
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Sick #Absence #Fallen
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Causes #Easier #Martyr
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.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Advice #Dupes #Unsaid
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Women #Memorable #Years
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#Memorable #Enemy #Strikes
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.
-- Diane de Poitiers

#People #Coins #Calumny

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