Condemnation Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Condemnation Guilt Guilty person Innocence Judgment Justice Mercy Reasonable doubt Verdict
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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