“It is better to suffer, than to do, wrong.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555), p. 164
“It is surely better to be wronged than to do wrong.”
— Isaac Asimov, book In Memory Yet Green
In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 175
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