Hope is not optimism; it is the stubborn refusal to accept t... - Alcibiades

This quote is attributed to Alcibiades.

"Hope is not optimism; it is the stubborn refusal to accept that the current situation is permanent."

Alcibiades Hope

General Statesman Ancient Greece 450–404

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