Tact is good taste in action.
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's. - 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
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 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.
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it. - Diane De Poitiers
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
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
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.
It is easier to win love than to keep it. - Diane De Poitiers
It is easier to win love than to keep it.
... 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
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
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
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike. - Diane De Poitiers
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
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