"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
Sidney J. Harris
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."
Peggy Noonan
From The Quotations Page
Those two people were describing today's 'cynics,' not philosophers from about two and a half millennia back. Someone said that today's cynicism might be better called pessimism - and I see the point.
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