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Aristotle

Rhetoric Section 8

Section 379 of 882

Canonical reference 2.12.8

Ancient Greek

καὶ εὐέλπιδες· ὥσπερ γὰρ οἱ οἰνωμένοι, οὕτω διάθερμοί εἰσιν οἱ νέοι ὑπὸ τῆς φύσεως· ἅμα δὲ καὶ διὰ τὸ μὴ πολλὰ ἀποτετυχηκέναι. καὶ ζῶσι τὰ πλεῖστα ἐλπίδι· ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἐλπὶς τοῦ μέλλοντός ἐστιν ἡ δὲ μνήμη τοῦ παροιχομένου, τοῖς δὲ νέοις τὸ μὲν μέλλον πολὺ τὸ δὲ παρεληλυθὸς βραχύ· τῇ γὰρ πρώτῃ ἡμέρᾳ μεμνῆσθαι μὲν οὐδὲν οἷόν τε, ἐλπίζειν δὲ πάντα. καὶ εὐεξαπάτητοί εἰσι διὰ τὸ εἰρημένον (ἑλπίζουσι γὰρ ῥᾳδίως),

English

J. H. Freese, 1926

full of hope, for they are naturally as hot-blooded as those who are drunken with wine, and besides they have not yet experienced many failures. For the most part they live in hope, for hope is concerned with the future as memory is with the past. For the young the future is long, the past short; for in the morning of life it is not possible for them to remember anything, but they have everything to hope; which makes them easy to deceive, for they readily hope.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13

ils sont pleins d’espoir, car ils sont naturellement aussi ardents que ceux que le vin enivre et, en outre, ils n’ont pas encore connu beaucoup d’échecs. Ils vivent le plus souvent dans l’espoir, car l’espoir se rapporte à l’avenir comme la mémoire au passé. Pour les jeunes gens, l’avenir est long et le passé court. Au matin de la vie, il ne leur est possible de se souvenir de presque rien, mais ils peuvent tout espérer, ce qui les rend faciles à tromper, car ils espèrent volontiers.

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