60% sureLots of sources credit Voltaire with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
What turned up
Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, "Deuxième discours: de la liberté" (1738): "Aime la vérité, mais pardonne à l'erreur." No named English translator located for this standard rendering.
Work
Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme
Occasion
1738
Sources checked
en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 21 August 2026Sourced section, raw wikitext fetch — French original + citation
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