#historical quotes

Sweet is the trust that springs from hope, without which we could not endure life’s many and almost unbearable adversities

Spes(Hope) - Brueghel(around 1560)

This gravure was designed by Pieter Brueghel the Elder and engraved by Philips Galle. It was published by Hieronymus Cock.

On the bottom it reads: “Iucundissima est spei persuasio, et vitae imprimis necessaria, inter tot aerumnas peneq(ue) intolerabilis.”

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