Ezra's Aphorism
Therein lies the truth
Lies live and die a thousand times
before the truth is ever born.
Ezra Godson
Deception moves swiftly—slipping from forked tongues into itching ears, dressed as rumor, yet paraded around as knowledge. A lie doesn’t need truth to survive; it only needs ignorant attention. Like a spell, it conjures emotion first leaving the hearer entranced as reason arrives too late to intervene.
The most dangerous lies are stitched with fragments of truth. They pass undetected, carried from mouth to ear, reshaped with every telling, like a game of whispers that ends in reputational ruin. By the time truth emerges, it must fight through layers of belief already hardened into memory and sweetened by secrecy.
Even when exposed, a lie rarely dies quietly. It lingers—in doubt, in suspicion, in the hushed questions that never fully leave. The damage settles in long before the truth is heard.
A lie can live and die a thousand times before the truth is ever born.