Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle --- Plato If this were reddit I'd have to make a novelty account for these. That sure don't sound lik

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle --- Plato If this were reddit I'd have to make a novelty account for these. That sure don't sound like Plato, and in this case we're lucky -- the best website in the business has already tracked this one down: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind. A Scottish theologian called Ian Maclaren wrote it as a Christmas message in 1897. The original: "Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle." "Pitiful" meant "merciful", of course, not "pathetic" as we mean it today.