"Why Lies Digest Well"

As Flannery O’Connor once put it, “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” But a falsehood, as Chesterton notes, is engineered precisely so that the listeners would in fact be able to stomach it.

- Doug Wilson, European Brain Snakes

Ruthless masters

Beyond question it is a happier thing to be the slave of a man than of a lust for [every lust] lays waste men's hearts with the most ruthless dominion.

- Augustine, City of God, Book 19, chap 15