This is one of the Logia or Sayings of Jesus written on papyrus in the third century and discovered in Egypt by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897. The italics, of course, are mine.
The first of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever.
Meanwhile it is singular how long the rotten will hold together, provided you do not handle it roughly.
There are quarrels in which even Satan, bringing help, were not unwelcome; even Satan, fighting stiffly, might cover himself with glory—of a temporary nature.
... Nothing but two clattering jaw-bones, and a head vacant, sonorous, of the drum species.