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

[Il vaut mieux hasarder de sauver un coupable que de condamner un innocent.] 

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Zadig (1747)

 
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