
“So long as there is life in the sick man, it is said that there is hope.”
Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) Book IX, Letter X, section 3
Often paraphrased as: Dum anima est, spes est ("While there is life there is hope")
Compare: "While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none." Theocritus, Idyll 4, line 42; as translated A. S. F. Gow
Original: (la) Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.