“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”
James Hillman (1926–2011) American psychologist
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“Who can hope for nothing should despair of nothing.”
Original: (la) Qui nil potest sperare, desperate nihil.
Source: Tragedies, Medea (c. 50 CE), Line 163 (trans. A. J. Boyle)
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