Diane De Poitiers Quotes

#1. Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

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#5. 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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#6. It is easier to win love than to keep it.

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#7. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

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#8. It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

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#9. Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

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#10. 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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#11. Tact is good taste in action.

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