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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
 
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
 
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
 
He who has never hoped can never despair.
 
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
 
In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.
 
Hope is the normal form of delirium.
 
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
 
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
 
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.
 
A leader is a dealer in hope.
 
The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
 
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
 
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
 
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