Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Receive an injury rather than do one.”
- Date
- 1856 translation
- English wording
- Darius Lyman — Translator · from Latin
Meaning of “Receive an injury rather than do one.”
Personal suffering is treated as morally preferable to becoming the person who deliberately inflicts unjust harm on another.
Where does it come from?
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, maxim 5, in Darius Lyman’s 1856 English rendering; maxim order can vary across editions.
