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.Collection: Courage
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.Collection: Wisdom
It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.Collection: Causes
Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.Collection: Growing Up
It is easier to win love than to keep it.Collection: Winning
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.Collection: Women
Tact is good taste in action.Collection: Taste
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.Collection: Age
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.Collection: Sick
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.Collection: Calumny Is
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.Collection: Advice
... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.Collection: Degrees