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 Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
 [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.]  
 Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
 [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.] 
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, read more
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
In all things it is better to hope than to despair
In all things it is better to hope than to despair
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
The nympholepsy of some fond despair.
The nympholepsy of some fond despair.
 Thus repuls'd, our final hope
 Is flat despair.  
 Thus repuls'd, our final hope
 Is flat despair. 
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew read more
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.