10 Quotes by 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.

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

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

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

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

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

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

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.