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Quotation from Critias by Plato

“faint heart never yet raised a trophy”

Plato (spoken by Hermocrates)

Critias, Stephanus 108c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Hermocrates' encouragement to Critias before he begins, urging him to invoke Apollo and the Muses.

Citation: "faint heart never yet raised a trophy" — Plato, Critias, Stephanus 108c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-critias-q4)

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