Monologium, on the Being of God74 Chapter LXXIV. The supreme Being is to be hoped for.

St Anselm († 1109) · Monologion · 1075-1076

Chapter LXXIV. The supreme Being is to be hoped for.

But the human soul will by no means be able to train itself in this purpose, if it despairs of being able to reach what it aims at. Hence, devotion to effort is not more profitable to it than hope of attainment is necessary.

Sed in hac intentione humana anima nullatenus se poterit exercere, si desperet quo intendit se posse pervenire. Quapropter quantum illi est utile studium adnitendi, tantum necessaria est spes pertingendi.

Sidney Norton Deane (1878–1943), Chicago: Open Court, 1903. Digital text: English Wikisource transcription of the 1903 edition (each chapter checked against the OCR of the Internet Archive scan stanselmeproslog00anseuoft). Original text: Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich) TEI of the Patrologia Latina, via the CatholicCorpus mirror. Public domain in the US and Canada: published 1903; translator died 1943. Latin: Migne, PL 158 (1853), public domain.