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

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

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

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Courage is as often the outcome of despair as hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other all to gain.

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How true it is that the years a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

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Farewell sweet kisses, pigeon-wise,
With lip and tongue; farewell again
The secret sports betwixt us twain.


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What a marvelous age of technology we are living in — man has no barriers!

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The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to the ages of other women.

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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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We have all known ingratitude, ungrateful we have never been.

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Diane de Poitiers

Diane de Poitiers
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Born: September 3, 1499
Died: April 25, 1566 (aged 66)
Bio: Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of king Francis I and his son, King Henry II of France. She became notorious as King Henry's favourite.

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