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

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

- Diane De Poitiers

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

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

- Diane De Poitiers

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

- Diane De Poitiers

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

- Diane De Poitiers

... 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

Tact is good taste in action.

- Diane De Poitiers

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

- Diane De Poitiers