... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
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.
... 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
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.
It is easier to win love than to keep it. - Diane De Poitiers
It is easier to win love than to keep 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.
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.
Tact is good taste in action. - Diane De Poitiers
Tact is good taste in action.
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