“There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    
                                    Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.
                                
                            
                                        
                                        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