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While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.

ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες.

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Compare Cicero, Ad Atticum, IX.10.4: Aegroto, dum anima est, spes est While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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