Diane de Poitiers Quotes

• 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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  Courage, Sunset, Despair

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• To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

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  Wisdom, Fun, Memorable

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

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  Causes, Easier, Martyr

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• It is easier to win love than to keep it.

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  Winning, Easier

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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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  Growing Up, Boys, Men

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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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  Women, Memorable, Years

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• Tact is good taste in action.

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  Taste, Action, Tact

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

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  Age, Hideous, Old Age

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• It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

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  Sick, Absence, Fallen

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

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  Calumny Is, People, Coins

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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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  Advice, Dupes, Unsaid

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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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  Degrees, Abyss, Wells

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