The Quote Investigator looks into: Be Kind Everyone You Meet
is Fighting a Hard Battle
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle
Plato? Philo of Alexandria? Ian MacLaren? John Watson?
Question: This question is from Glossolalia Black.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
It is attributed to Plato on this little thing I have up in
my office, but I was told by a friend that it wasn’t him.
Fred Shapiro replied “this sounds anachronistic for Plato by
almost 2500 years” and then invited
readers to attempt to trace the quotation.
Quote Investigator: The websites ThinkExist,
Quotations Page,
and Brainy
Quote do have this quotation listed under the august name of Plato.
Philo of Alexandria is another popular choice when assigning
attribution, e.g., QuotationsBook
credits Philo. Sometimes Anonymous gets the nod. QI was able to trace the
saying back more than one-hundred years to its likely origin. The original
aphorism did not use the word “kind”. Instead, another surprising word was
used.
[20100629 Be Kind Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard
Battle]
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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