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By Aristotle
On another occasion the question was put to him, what hope is? and his answer was, “The dream of a waking man.”
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- The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, 1915 · Book V, Life of Aristotle, section XI (Yonge's numbering)
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- G. Bell and Sons, London (Bohn's Classical Library; 1915 reprint of Yonge's translation, first published 1853)
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Reported by Diogenes Laertius in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book V, in the Life of Aristotle, in C. D. Yonge's English translation. Diogenes wrote centuries after Aristotle's death and lists this among sayings attributed to him. It is a report of a spoken answer, not a line from Aristotle's own books.