It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Qu'il vaut mieux hasarder de sauver un coupable que de condamner un innocent.

Voltaire

Zadig

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Voltaire. Zadig ou la Destinée [Zadig; or, The Book of Fate]. Londres: Pour la Cie, 1747, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Voltaire. "Zadig." Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories, translated by Donald M. Frame. Signet, 2009, ch. 6.