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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

Voltaire
Hope, Virtue, Should
Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.318
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.