Kitap 2
12.7
They are not ill-natured but simple-natured,Or, they do not look at things in a bad light, but in a good, i.e., they are not always ready to suspect. because they have never yet witnessed much depravity; confiding, because they have as yet not been often deceived;
12.8
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.
12.9
And they are more courageous, for they are full of passion and hope, and the former of these prevents them fearing, while the latter inspires them with confidence, for no one fears when angry, and hope of some advantage inspires confidence.
12.10
And they are bashful, for as yet they fail to conceive of other things that are noble, but have been educated solely by convention.Social convention is the only law that they know, and they are ashamed if they violate it, because as yet they have no idea of higher laws which may command them to do so.
