Diane de Poitiers Quotes

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

Diane de Poitiers

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

Diane de Poitiers

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.

Diane de Poitiers

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.

Diane de Poitiers

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

Diane de Poitiers

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.

Diane de Poitiers

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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