“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.”

— book Bible

Source: Proverbs 13:12

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero Epistulae ad Atticum

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

“The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.”

Franz von Papen (1879–1969) German chancellor

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“So long as there is life in the sick man, it is said that there is hope.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero Epistulae ad Atticum

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.

“Man has many wishes that he does not really wish to fulfil, and it would be a misunderstanding to suppose the contrary. He wants them to remain wishes, they have value only in his imagination; their fulfilment would be a bitter disappointment to him. Such a desire is the desire for eternal life. If it were fulfilled, man would become thoroughly sick of living eternally, and yearn for death. In reality man wishes merely to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death. Everything has its measure, says a pagan philosopher; in the end we weary of everything, even of life; a time comes when man desires death. Consequently there is nothing frightening about a normal, natural death, the death of a man who has fulfilled himself and lived out his life.”

Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) German philosopher and anthropologist

Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View <br class="br"> Lectures on the Essence of Religion http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/lectures/index.htm (1851)