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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Legal theory

Author

Voltaire

Source

Zadig

Language

French

Time

1747 1740s 18th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

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.

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Time
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Language
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Time
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Citation

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Terre des hommes [Wind, Sand and Stars]. Gallimard, 1939.