"He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
The disposition of an optimist is often attributed to the "dope". An optimist is someone who either does not recognize the facts, or has them all and ignores them anyway, to their eventual detriment.