There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.
— Cicero
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• There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.
• 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
• Source: Wikiquote: "Cicero" (Quotes)
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Name: M-T-Cicero
Description: Dansk: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Kopi efter romersk orginal udført af Bertel Thorvaldsen 1799-1800, Thorvaldsens Museum. English: Marcus Tullius Cicero, by Bertel Thorvaldsen as copy from roman original, in Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen. Español: Marco Tulio Cicerón, copia de un original romano por Bertel Thorvaldsen (1799-1800), en el Thorvaldsens Museum de Copenhague. Français : Marcus Tullius Cicero. Sculpture par Bertel Thorvaldsen (vers 1799-1800), copie d'un original romain. Buste exposé au Thorvaldsens Museum à Copenhague, au Danemark.
Date: May 2007
Source: Image:Thorvaldsen Cicero.jpg
Author: original: Gunnar Bach Pedersen; for that version: Louis le Grand
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