Everyone who lies acts unjustly, and if lying ever seems useful to someone, it may be that injustice sometimes seems useful to him. But in fact injustice is never useful, and lying always does harm.
—Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 1.40
Everyone who lies acts unjustly, and if lying ever seems useful to someone, it may be that injustice sometimes seems useful to him. But in fact injustice is never useful, and lying always does harm.
—Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 1.40