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Diane de Poitiers
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“Tact is good taste in action.”
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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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“It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.”
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“We have all known ingratitude, ungrateful we have never been.”
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“It is easier to win love than to keep it.”
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“Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.”
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“It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.”
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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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“To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.”
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“What a marvelous age of technology we are living in — man has no barriers!”
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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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“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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“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.”
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“Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.”
Diane de Poitiers, French writer, patron of the arts
(1499 - 1566)
Title: Duchesse de Valentinois.