Augustine of Hippo, on 1Pet 3:17

“For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer, than doing ill.”

“Everyone who lies acts unjustly, and if lying ever seems to be 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.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.