Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Diane de Poitiers

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Last updated on November 5, 2024.

Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and prominent courtier. She wielded much power and influence as King Henry II's royal mistress and adviser until his death. Her position increased her wealth and family's status. She was a major patron of French Renaissance architecture.

September 3, 1499 - April 25, 1566

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It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Diane de Poitiers

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

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.

Diane de Poitiers

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

Diane de Poitiers

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

Diane de Poitiers

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

Diane de Poitiers

Tact is good taste in action.

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

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

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Diane de Poitiers

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

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.

Diane de Poitiers

Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Diane de Poitiers

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